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

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 5:15 AM Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>
wrote:

> Jens Glad Balchen wrote:
> > How could we tag separately drawn cycleway tracks so that we
> > know they are tracks?
>
> is_sidepath=yes is in common usage (13,000+ ways) and is used by
> cycle.travel, at least, to influence routing choices and turn-by-turn
> directions.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:is_sidepath
>
> (Also, I'm intrigued whether your domain name is the excellent London band
> or the industrial French city!)
>

I feel like this (along with bicycle=use_sidepath instead of just tagging
the way that doesn't allow bicycles to use it bicycle=no) to be effectively
meaningless while adding complexity that could be inferred by proximity
(and possibly by name).  Seems like highway=cycleway next to a sufficiently
large road with the same name and possibly tagged bicycle=no would make it
obvious to everything and everyone what's going on there.
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