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

[Greg Troxel]

Snusmumriken <snusmumriken.mapper at runbox.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 22:24 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>> just usually only a certain kind of bicycle.
>
> Well, that's the problem, if one can't travel on a certain way with a
> general purpose bicycle, then it shouldn't be tagged highway=cycleway 

I agree, and I think this is the point.

We don't use "highway=unclassified" for a road that cannot be used by a
passenger car and is only passable with an extreme-high-clearance 4WD
vehicle.


As for path, I see

  highway=cycleway
and
  highway=path bicycle=designated

as equivalent.  And same for footway/foot=designated.

However, around me there is a convention that any
dirt/unimproved/in-the-woods sort of thing is path, and
in-town/paved/manicured sorts of are highway=footway.

Basically if you can walk on it in dress shoes, not get dirty, and not
get ticks, it is footway, and if you ought to have hiking shoes, it is
path.

I realize this is controversial, but it's another data point.


I am mildly curious how many places there are in mountain bike trails
that prohibit hikers.   Around me, every trail  that is open at all is
open to hiking, and some are open to bicycles and horses, some aren't.
(Additionally some are closed to bicyles and horses when wet.)