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

Volker Schmidt voschix at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 21:07:44 UTC 2020


> The trouble with this is that very few trails are 'designated' for
> riding a bicycle.  They are legal for bikes, hikers, and horses.

Please not that this is different in at least three countries in Europe:
highway=cycleway excludes any other means of transport including foot.

See also the tables in
wiki Access Restrictions
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions>

Volker

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 22:37, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> brad <bradhaack at fastmail.com> writes:
>
> > How many trails are there that are not shared use?
>
> In my town, most of the town-owned conservation land has rules that say:
>
>   trails shown on the official map may be used by hikers, bicycles and
>   horses
>
>   other trails may be used by hikers only
>
>
> So there are a lot that are not shared use.
>
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