[Tagging] Tagging cycleways to distinguish them from combined cycle and footways

[Jens Glad Balchen]

On 03.08.2022 10:59, Jeroen Hoek wrote:
> Have a look at this typical Dutch situation:
>
> https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1426041,5.7397237,3a,75y,228.33h,88.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAhezo74J5tsgo0u0mM-oNQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 
>
>
> On the right, a road, on the left, a compulsory cycleway. Dutch law 
> says that pedestrians must use the cycleway here (and they may walk on 
> its hard surface), and may not use the shoulder of the road because 
> the (much safer) cycleway is there. So the road gets 
> foot=use_sidepath, and the cycleway has no foot value (because the 
> Dutch default access tags have foot=yes for highway=cycleway), or 
> foot=yes.
>
> So you are saying that in Norway, in a case like this, pedestrians can 
> choose to use the shoulder of both the road and the cycleway?

Yes.

There are no compulsory roads of any kind in Norway, and the only 
mandate is the one for pedestrians that I quoted. Everything else is 
based on explicit prohibition.

Jens