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

[Jeroen Hoek]

On 03-08-2022 16:27, Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote:
> I still do not think that highway=cycleway,foot=yes is correct because 
> according to the law you cannot walk on the cycleway if the cycleway has 
> a suitable verge which they usually have.

To be able to route along a shoulder or verge the way it belongs to must 
be tagged permissively. The access tags tell you you can use the road, 
but this includes legal use of the shoulder and verge for pedestrians, 
not just the paved carriageway. If you put in foot=no you break routing 
along the verge even though it is allowed.

The only way around this would be something like this:

highway=cycleway
foot=no
verge=right
verge:foot=yes

But that would be a first, and whether verge:foot=* overrides foot=* or 
not is not strictly defined to my knowledge. Simply letting pedestrians 
apply the local traffic regulations themselves is much easier.

In the Netherlands we do use foot=use_sidepath (which disallows routing 
like foot=no) on roads where applicable, but only if there is a parallel 
path which is compulsory (like a cycleway or sidewalk).