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

[brad]

Your kind of right, but It's a better set of tags than what exists for 
most of the ways in the western US,  There are probably thousands of 
miles of trail in the western US that have not much more than 
highway=path tagging.   It's a safe assumption that they are not paved, 
or recommended for a skinny tired road bike.
I'm not screwing up routing, the router should not assume that a path is 
paved unless it says it is, or is tagged as cycleway.

On 4/2/20 2:58 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 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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