[Talk-us] Colorado mappers: Check your notes carefully

[Richard Fairhurst]

SteveA wrote:
> [Great Divide Mountain Bike Route]
> where MountainAddict keeps setting this to network=ncn 
> when clearly it is network=icn (as it crosses the Canadian 
> border in Alberta).  A partial compromise/consensus 
> solution has emerged:  keep a duplicate relation synced as 
> route=mtb.  OK, that makes sense.

Yeeeees.

It shouldn't really be route=bicycle at all. route=bicycle generally implies
a designated (and, in other parts of the world, signposted) bicycle route
which has been assessed for safety and other suitability for general-purpose
bicycles. Bike routers can and do give such routes preferential weighting.

The GDMBR isn't such a route. It should be route=mtb, not route=bicycle,
because it's meant for MTBs - not just "bicycles". I understand that the
original GDMBR mapper was unhappy with route=mtb as it didn't render
prominently on OpenCycleMap, but that's now been fixed so shouldn't be an
issue.

That said, life is too short to get into edit wars on such things, so I was
happy with just having a manual override in cycle.travel's US routing
profile:

    if route_ref=='GDM' then
        -- ignore this route
    else
        -- ....

...until someone decided to change the ref from GDM to GDMBR. :|

cheers
Richard



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