[Tagging] Usefulness of bicycle=dismount on ways

[John F. Eldredge]

Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/10/9 John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>
> 
> > I think bicycle=no would be clearer in meaning.
> >
> 
> 
> you can insist on this, but we are not starting to map right now, and
> given
> that "bicycle" has the longstanding meaning of "cyclist" in osm, your
> proposal would imply a change on this meaning --- a tag that is used
> 461k
> times.
> 
> cheers,
> Martin
> 
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After I posted this message, I read another message suggesting bicycle:push=no, which is a better suggestion than bicycle=no.  Another possibility is bicycle:dismounted=no.  Dismount is a verb, dismounted is an adjective.  So, bicycle=dismount and bicycle:dismount=yes would both logically apply to the cyclist, meaning "you should dismount at this point", bicycle:dismount=no would logically apply to the cyclist, meaning "you should not dismount at this point", bicycle:dismounted would apply to the bicycle, meaning "dismounted bicycles are allowed", and bicycle:dismounted=no would apply to the bicycle, meaning "dismounted bicycles are not allowed".

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