[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - value 'basic_network' - cycle_network?

[Adam Franco]

As I've been reading this long discussion the thought that keeps coming up
in my mind is that "relation are not categories":
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations_are_not_categories

For this naive foreign mapper, it would seem that a given town-to-town
"basic" route might itself be a relation (with member ways or nodes guiding
between those two start/end points). It doesn't make sense to make a huge
relation that includes all "officially recommended" "basic" routes between
all communities. Such a huge relation would merely be a category.

I may be misunderstanding what is being suggested, but instead of huge
relations with thousands of members, how about defining a simple tag/tags
that can be applied to highway ways that are officially recommended?
`bicycle=designated` is an access rule, but maybe something like
`bicycle_usage=recommended` or any other keys/values that get at the heart
of what is being recommed.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 10:47 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Nov 23, 2021, 11:16 by voschix at gmail.com:
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> One important thing (at least for me) that is emerging from this
> discussion, is an underlying, not documented, assumption that I am making,
> and that i shared most likely by all of my OSM cycling friends in Italy are
> sharing, but that some people in this discussion are explicitly not sharing:
> bicycle (and hiking ) routes in OSM are touristic routes. They are not
> geared towards "the safest and fastest connection".
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> bicycle (and hiking ) routes in OSM are signed routes.
> I believe that it is documented?
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> Typically it will be touristic route, but safest and fastest connection
> may also appear.
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> Note that touristic routes are quite likely to be safe connections (if
> they designers
> were competent)
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