[Tagging] Can highway=cycleway be limited to MTB?

[Andrew Harvey]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 23:17, Florimond Berthoux <
florimond.berthoux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The first time I saw cycleways on the map in the Alps on mountains I was
> surprised, and not really confident with the tagging.
>
> I think I agree that a cycleway should be useable by any kind of bicycle.
>
> What we have today to tag mtb ways :
>
> If it’s a shared path with pedestrian (hiking) or horses or used for
> farming/forest etc we have keys highway=path and highway=track. I think we
> all agree with that.
>

Agreed. I'm more talking about purpose built mountain bike tracks, which
can have man made jumps, bridges and other man made features which make it
obvious it's a mountain bike track and not just a path that you can ride a
mountain bike through.


> For a leisure sport park for mountain biking I think leisure=track +
> sport=mtb could be used I guess
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dtrack
> Example : https://youtu.be/cD8XaOatg5I?t=307
>

I didn't think of leisure=track, I guess that could apply to tracks within
a mountain bike park, a bit like a BMX track, especially if it loops
around, but it feels like a stretch to apply to longer more wilderness
mountain bike tracks. At the moment it does seem like the most
appropriate choice for a dedicated mountain bike track if highway=cycleway
is not allowed though, it doesn't reflect current tagging though.


> The problem here is that I don’t see what a way made only for mtb which is
> not a leisure=track could looks like.
> For me if it’s in the wilderness it can be used by anyone, like hikers so
> it should be a highway=path.
> Do you have examples (photos, videos) ?
>

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/454574501 + sign at the start
https://flickr.com/photos/136319147@N08/48392024356
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