[Tagging] Usefulness of bicycle=dismount on ways

[Georg Feddern]

Am 08.10.2013 20:16, schrieb Volker Schmidt:
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>     Just for your reference - while for many cases, I agree that
>     bicycle=no
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>     Republic, where using bicycle=dismount for nodes on a path would
>     make things easier for people editing OSM. Consider this:
>     http://img.ct24.cz/cache/900x700/article/20/1936/193540.jpg
>     http://img.ct24.cz/multimedia/videos/image/646/medium/193542.jpg
>     (and don't ask me what idiot proposed a cycleway like this).
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> This is the standard way of doing things here in Italy as well. At 
> every "end of cycleway" sign you are legally supposed to dismount and 
> cross the lateral road as pedestrian

well, as it is also signed as the end of the legal footway/sidewalk - in 
my opinion it is no need for a _dismount_ there.
In my opinion it is just a legal backdoor, that on these driveways (or 
serviceways?) you leave the legal cycleway/footway (with the regarding 
legal rights above the otherwise crossing traffic) and have to obey the 
crossing traffic for your own risk - even as walker, but also as cyclist.

Georg
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