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

[Morten Lange]

    On Saturday, 4 April 2020, 11:55:01 CEST, Marc M. <marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com> wrote:  
 
 > Le 04.04.20 à 11:26, Florimond Berthoux a écrit :
> > 
> > Le sam. 4 avr. 2020 à 10:18, Snusmumriken a écrit :
> > 
> >    On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 20:53 +0200, Florimond Berthoux wrote:
> >    > For this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7wbi4wGbsg (Andrew's
> >    > example)
> >    > We're on the edge of tags definition : this a path limited cyclist,
> >    > where a mountain bike almost mandatory to ride there. Some features
> >    > help the cyclist.
> > 
> > bicycle=yes is an access tag
> 
> +1

-1

1. Although the sentence about it being an access tag, is technically true, whar is meant is a primarily a normal bicycle, not sports equipment.  
 bicycle=yes is much more widely used, and various tools and users will expect that to pertain to transportation and touring, not extreme-sports (in some sense) or adventure.
In addition I would say that a small grain adding weight to the argument of viewing this from the viewpoint of "normal utility cycling"  is that normal cycling for transport is more important for the greater good. Everyday or utility ccyling is more important for  for public health, for the environment and supports a majority of the 17  UN Sustainable Development Goals https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg17

(And incidentally cycling for transport is widely regarded as being a valuable tool now during the Covid-19 crisis , when people are advised not to use public transport. (And to not travel far) ). 


2. As has been said several times previously, the main tags should convey consistent, predictable information.
mtb:scale is a speciality / niche tag.  Those that want to find information about sports tracks / routes will be able to use that alone. mtb:scale implies bicycle=yes (but in practice only for special bikes and/or skills )   

Best Regards,Morten Lange
> without a traffic sign related to access (I can't read the pannel),
> I only use
> higway=path
> mtb:scale=2
> incline=yes
> mtb=designated <- if the pannel is related to mtb> 






-- Regards / Kveðja / Salaam za dhati / Hilsen Morten Lange



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