[Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

Fri Apr 3 14:16:43 UTC 2020

Hi!

I would like to start a discussion on how we should deal with sidewalks tagged separately, like it is is done in downtown Ottawa and like we are starting to do in the Montreal region.

The issue is that by default highway=footway with or without footway=sidewalk should have an implicit bicycle=no by default according to this page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions>

However, some osm users told me I should tag them with bicycle=no everywhere because routing engines use sidewalks for bicycle routing which is illegal in most part of Canada.

What are your thoughts on this ? Should we adapt to routing engines or should routing engines fix the issue themselves?

Thanks!

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