[Talk-GB] Komoot Cycle Routing in UK

[SK53]

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.

The issue has been known for some time, but increased usage of Komoot may
bring OSM in the UK into disrepute as they typically say something along
the lines <https://twitter.com/komoot/status/1439948701095583751> of "we
only take data as it comes from OpenStreetMap". It is getting quite common
for landowners to either complain or remove private paths & tracks from
OSM. This can be due to inaccurate mapping (a recent case was on the
Thoresby Estate), but most often is because people are using routers which
do not account for how things are mapped here.

I wonder if we can do anything to get Komoot to correct this behaviour?

Jerry
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