[Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

[David Woolley]

On 13/05/16 11:17, Dave F wrote:
> I think you're combining two separate issues.
>
> Designated cycle route NCN4 was implemented along the K&A canal long
> before 2012. There a was short time when a free license was required to
> officially use it.
>
> Whether individual people had a license or not made no difference to
> it's status.

I think the problem is that bicycle= is being used for two different 
purposes, which are somewhat orthogonal.  One is to indicate access and 
the other is to indicate designation.  I think the situation is that the 
designated cycle route runs over a permissive path, not a public right 
of way.  You either need bicycle=permissive;designated, or to have a 
combined value, something like bicycle=permissive-designated.  The 
latter is better as the multi value notation tends to imply a union of 
permissions, not an intersection.

Designating as public footpath or bridleway gives certain legal rights, 
e.g. the right to not have the path obstructed, whereas designating a 
permissive path as a national cycle route only gives a routing 
preference.  There are also long distance foot routes that often go over 
permissive paths.