[Talk-GB] Komoot Cycle Routing in UK

[Andy Townsend]

On 20/09/2021 23:55, Robert Skedgell wrote:
> On 20/09/2021 20:22, SK53 wrote:
>> I just noticed someone posting on twitter
>> <https://twitter.com/carlmyhill/status/1440015626421116932> that Komoot
>> was routing cyclists along trails where cycling is forbidden in Richmond
>> Park (fine apparently £60). Apparently Komoot treats all highway=track &
>> highway=path as bicycle=yes by default. Clearly this is inaccurate in
>> most of the UK.

(snipped)

For completeness, I've replied on 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/111443049 backing a previous 
suggestion that Komoot might want to discuss the rules associated with 
cycling in different parts of the UK with talk-gb, and (based on the 
current state of 
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=11348925 ) 
they probably need to reply to some other questions too.

We (the DWG) regularly get issues raised about 3rd-party maps and apps' 
rendering and routing, and Komoot is no different.

I get the impression that many* of these maps and apps tend to have 
people editing OSM that don't always appreciate the nuances of the 
tagging that they are using, or the nuances of OSM's available tagging, 
or in some cases even "how OSM works".  In a sense that's to be expected 
(OSM tagging is complicated), but the way to fix that is to keep in 
dialogue with the OSM communities in which they are operating.

Best Regards,

Andy (from OSM's Data Working Group, with a particular hobby-horse of 
"access tags in England and Wales")

* there are obvious exceptions - in terms of apps, Go Map!!, Vespucci 
and StreetComplete immediately spring to mind as examples of apps that 
are very much "part of the OSM community".