[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - value 'basic_network' for keys 'network:type', 'lcn' and 'lwn'

[stevea]

On Nov 21, 2021, at 10:27 AM, Sebastian Gürtler <sebastian.guertler at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> We do have [...]
>> We do not have a scheme for signposted non-touristic bicycle routes, including bicycle superhighways or similar dedicated structures
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> ... I think that's the aspect that is my personal focus (still emphasizing that in Germany there is just one signposting system integrating both touristic and non-touristic routes) - and have still neither a real good idea how to transfer this into OSM nor I know how exactly Jochen would suggest to use the tag basic_network in cases like I sent lately. (In my personal surrounding I just used it and render my own maps based on it, but I see inconsistencies besides advantages).

Clearly, touristic routes belong to a different cycle_network (or even plural networks), distinct from "the basic network," which must be given a unique value of cycle_network to identify it / them.

You have (bicycle) infrastructure, OK, easy to tag.  Build or improve these so there is absolutely no ambiguity about them and everybody agrees they are correct.  Due to what appears to be messy tagging (no judgement, just stating the facts without pointing fingers of blame), you are not there yet and you must "go back to here to go forward."

You have (bicycle) signage which imply a number of different kinds of routes.  Some of these routes are part of at least one "basic_network" where the basic routes "make up together" this thing, perhaps one of many (perhaps at various levels, like local and regional).  Whether these are way-member networks (traditional) or node-member networks (node-oriented), OSM models both kinds of routes with relations.  Build these AFTER you get to the above place of "infrastructure consensus" with proper cycle_network=* tagging where the values of that tag are widely agreed upon to correctly reflect the geography (Germany-national, Germany-a-particular-German-state, Switzerland-national, Switzerland-a-particular-Swiss-canton...) and type (tourist, basic, commuter...) of cycle_network tag values.

This is how the rest of the world does this, and you can, too.  But I don't think basic_network as the proposal that is being proposed is going to do it.