[OSM-talk] on-road cycle routes

[Alex Mauer]

Andy Allan wrote:
> On 6/15/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> 
>> highway=footway, bicycle=yes just seems the wrong way round. What you
>> will see on the map is a footway with no indication that it can be
>> cycled on, as usually you can't cycle on footways.
> 
> Agreed with everything you said here (including the "might go back at
> somepoint" bits!).

I just see a need to distinguish "bike paths that may be hiked on" from
"hiking trails that may be biked on".  highway=cycleway, foot=yes
implies the former, while highway=footway, bicycle=yes is the latter.

I assumed from the name of one of the example paths ("The Avon Walkway")
that the latter was the case here.  When I'm tagging I tend to use
either depending on whether the route "seems" more like a hiking trail
or a bike path.

> This is where I think the Map Features are the wrong way round - there
> should be a big list of things you can find in the real world, with
> their OSM tagging details beside them. So a nice long list of photos
> of all the different cycle path permutations that we can find, with
> the recommended way of tagging each of them beside.

I agree that this would be helpful, though many of these don't exactly
name names.  Another useful thing would be to document the "default"
access restrictions of each, i.e. "motorway means  motor*=yes; cycleway
means bicycle=yes,foot=yes; bridleway means
horse=yes,foot=yes[,bike=yes?]; footway means foot=yes" so that it's
known when it's necessary to add additional restrictions (allowances,
really).

> (I'm not saying replace Map Features, just that the topic/country
> specific reverse lookup could actually be more useful)

Agreed, "how do I tag a/an [xxx]" is a more helpful question to answer.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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