<div dir="auto">I don't think it's more tagging for the renderer as much as it's being more specific(more data) to specify a abstract view: without knowledge of Canadian/Provincial/Municipal laws about biking on sidewalks. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think Montreal and Gatineau are more enforced as Ottawa it is illegal to bike on the sidewalk, but people are still doing it, but that's beside the point.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri., Apr. 3, 2020, 10:18 a.m. Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais via Talk-ca, <<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi!<div><br></div><div>I would like to start a discussion on how we should deal with sidewalks tagged separately, like it is is done in downtown Ottawa and like we are starting to do in the Montreal region.</div><div><br></div><div>The issue is that by default highway=footway with or without footway=sidewalk should have an implicit bicycle=no by default according to this page: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions</a></div><div><br></div><div>However, some osm users told me I should tag them with bicycle=no everywhere because routing engines use sidewalks for bicycle routing which is illegal in most part of Canada.</div><div><br></div><div>What are your thoughts on this ? Should we adapt to routing engines or should routing engines fix the issue themselves?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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