[Tagging] meaning of highway=crossing + bicycle=no

[bkil]

We always use it on nodes to mark a crossing where you must dismount. Not
very common on ways around here.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:22 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> I always understood
> highway=crossing + bicycle=no
> tagging to mean "you cannot use this crossing to cross road while cycling,
> it does not affect legality of cycling on the road"
>
> Used when
> (1) cycleway or footway with allowed cycling is interrupted by
> crossing where cyclists are obligated to dismount
> (2) there is cycleway/footway with allowed cycling on both sides of
> road, it is tagged as cycleway:left/cycleway:right/cycleway:both
> and there is pedestrian only crossing at some point
> (cyclist cannot switch sides without dismounting)
>
> Or is it a tagging that means "you must dismount while either
> using crossing and while cycling on the road",
> making this basically useless.
>
> I am asking as there was discussion on OSM Wiki between me
> and one other person, with recent edits to OSM Wiki that seems
> to misrepresent real tagging practice.
>
> I am considering reverting them, but I wanted to ask here whatever
> what I think about tagging practice matches what other consider
> as consensus.
>
> See
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:highway%3Dcrossing&action=history
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:highway%3Dcrossing#highway.3Dcrossing_with_bicycle.3Dno
> for OSM Wiki links
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