[Tagging] The concept of "audience" (commuter, tourist...) in bicycle routing/neworks

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 12/6/21 02:43, stevea wrote:
> One concept I'll toss out is "audience."  (Maybe bicycling_audience).  Once it's clear to me (and others) whether we're talking about a "collection of ways," (distinct from a route?), a route, routes, a network or networks (that is not yet clear to me), syntax might be fashioned for "this."  It might be :audience bolted onto network, it might be simply key:audience=* or bicycling_audience=*, with initial sensible values of [commuter, tourist].  I mean if that "relatively new concept not already well-articulated" actually tags for what you mean, well, we're onto something.

If I may offer a word of caution here - let's take care not to get 
carried away into mapping "recommendations". It is our job to map the 
facts, and the routing engine's to use these facts to generate 
recommendations for various audiences. It is not our job to come up with 
recommendations ("why, this bicycle superhighway is probably more aimed 
at commuters so let's invent a tag for this").

In the cycling department we're already prone to deviating from our 
standard "map what's on the ground" mode (by marking infrastructure as 
being part of some cycling network even if the only evidence of that is 
a map published by a cycling association, and not actual signage).

Let's just keep that in mind. Mapping anything that is not clearly 
visible on the ground will always require a very good reason.

Bye
Frederik

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