[Tagging] Mapping cycle tracks as separate geometries, but still know they are tracks?

[Jens Glad Balchen]

>     The reason it would be valuable to tag highway=cycleway as a track
>     in this instance is that a track has requirements for separation
>     from other mode types that are more similar to a cycle lane than
>     to an actual bike path (at least in Norway). So you'll be
>     significantly safer on a bike path than you will be on a cycle
>     track, and marginally safer on a cycle track than in a cycle lane.
>     For that reason, it'd be nice to know if what we have is a track
>     or a path.
>
> Could you give pointers to photos of real situations, please,  for the 
> Norwegian cycle track and cycle paths you are referring to.
>

Here is another situation which is an even better illustration. 
Separated cycleway + sidewalk adjacent to a road, with distance and 
fence separation.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFo83imWoAAf23C?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

No difference in tagging from a cycle track mapped as a separate 
highway=cycleway.

Cheers,

Jens
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