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

brad bradhaack at fastmail.com
Mon Apr 6 16:36:58 UTC 2020


I don't think we want or need an mtb= tag.
Even though we don't need a path=mtb tag, I'd be OK with it.  It would 
be a shortcut instead of adding some of the other tags.  I don't think 
routers for cycle touring should rely on this though.
I live in a popular mtb location (Colorado, USA), and I don't think I've 
come across an mtb=*  way.   My tag searching skills are weak, but on 
taginfo it looks like very few instances of this tag in the rocky mtns, 
quite a few in Europe.


On 4/5/20 3:52 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> I agree with Martin here, if tags are used but not documented on the 
> wiki, discussion on the mailing lists or through a proposal process, 
> how would such tags hold any meaning? Different editors probably add 
> it to mean different things. We can't really make any assumptions 
> about what they mean, which is why this whole discussion exists so we 
> can have some kind of contract between people entering tags and people 
> consuming data, so we have a shared understanding of the meaning of 
> those tags.
>
> Anyone who's used the mtb= tags so far, it would be great to hear what 
> this was meant to mean.
>
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 19:08, Martin Koppenhoefer 
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Am So., 5. Apr. 2020 um 11:03 Uhr schrieb Yves <yvecai at mailbox.org
>     <mailto:yvecai at mailbox.org>>:
>
>         As a side note: I would be worried to redefine the mtb=yes/no
>         tag that is not documented but widely used.
>
>
>
>     how can it be "redefined" if there isn't documentation about it?
>
>     Cheers
>     Martin
>
>
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