[OSM-talk] Tagging of jogging tracks

[Mike Collinson]

At 10:24 PM 8/05/2008, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

>Inge Wallin schrieb:
>
>> Yes, that is indeed what it is. I haven't tracked it yet, but there is
>> also a
>> mountain bike track in that area.  I suppose that should be tagged:
>>
>>   highway=cycleway
>>   sport=mountainbike
>>
>> Except...  these are not really ways at all, but narrow tracks through the
>> woods that are not suitable for anything really, except mountainbiking.
>
>So go for highway=mtb_track, please.  Do not expect old renderers or routers
>to know about the sport=mountainbike restriction with a sudden.

+1 to highway=mtb_track

These are paths specifically designed for mountain bike use and fun, often deliberately not following the natural terrain an ordinary path would and often a circuit not taking you anywhere useful.

I take the point that other paths are of varying suitability for road / hydrid / mountain bikes and that it is hard to objectively catagorise them ... but that is not relevant I think, highway=cycleway is fine for them (though a simple subjective classification as proposed in another thread does not seem a bad idea).

Mike