[OSM-talk] Tagging of jogging tracks

[Martin Simon]

Am Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008 23:15:17 schrieb Alex Mauer:
> Simon Ward wrote:
> > Good parts of the national cycle network (often, but not always,
> > alternate routes) in the UK are tracks hardly suitable for road bikes.
> > They are still meant for bicycles.
>
> +1.  The same can be said for designated cycle routes in countries which
> don't even have a national cycle network.  Just because a route is not
> suitable for all bicycles doesn't mean it's not a designated cycle route.
>
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"

I think there is some important difference between a designated cycleway and a 
cycle route.

Cycle routes often use residential roads, agricultural tracks, 
primary/secondary/tertiary/unclassified roads and even footpaths.

But this does'nt make these ways designated cycleways(highway=cycleway).
Marking of *routes* is provided by e.g. Andy's Cycle Map, this has nothing to 
do with the type of the ways used by cycle routes, its what we have the route 
tags for.

Otherwise I would have had to retag about 10km of primary and secondary 
highways of a designated cycle route I tracked last weekend 
as "highway=cycleway"... ;-)

-Martin