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

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Thu Apr 2 20:58:23 UTC 2020


brad wrote:
> The proper tag is highway=path, foot=yes, horse=yes, bike=yes.

That's an utterly terrible set of tags _unless_ you also specify a surface
tag.

highway=cycleway is, by default, a way whose construction standards are
"good enough to ride a bike on". Great! I can route along it.

highway=path doesn't provide that assurance. It just says "this is a path of
some sort". highway=path, bicycle=yes might be a wonderful paved path. It
might also be a 50cm-wide cliff-edge path where, by some freak of
legislation, you're permitted to ride along there. To your death. (There are
lots of mountain paths in Scotland that would qualify for that. No-one would
tag them as highway=cycleway. But bikes are technically permitted.)

If you tag trails with "highway=path, foot=yes, horse=yes, bicycle=yes" and
nothing else, you are royally screwing up routing. Please don't.

Yours, a frustrated bike router author.



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