[Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

[Greg Troxel]

Thomas Colson <thomas_colson at nps.gov> writes:

> I'm confused: is the issue tagging a bike route with some sort of
> official number when it really doesn’t have one,

The current discussion is about tagging a proposed bike route with a
number in USBR namespace, when the USBR naming authority has not put
that router/number into proposed status.

> or just tagging any way as a "bike route" without including an
> official number?

That is not the subject of this discussion, but it's come up before.  My
impression is that the consensus is that it's inappropriate to put in
route tags for something that is both not signposted and not formally
approved by a widely-recognized route-determining authority.  For
example, this view says that a favorite club ride, a charity ride's
route, etc. does not belong in the database.
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