[OSM-talk] Philosophy about Autorouting for Cyclists and new key class:bicycle

[Ben Laenen]

Felix Hartmann wrote:
> If in OSM we really want to get in more mountainbikers, we have to start
> with unofficial routes. I will think about it for the night, and put up
> a wiki page tomorrow, put some notices on this on the big forums
> (hopefully they will get ~5000 pageviews, put them in my feedburner
> newsletter (1200 recipients) and as of next Friday render unofficial
>  routes.
> 
> Once we have more than 500 unofficial routes (I'ld say this takes no
> more than 14 days), I will take out official routes form my maps, except
> if they are labelled with additional information to make sure they are
> not a trekking bike route labelled as mtb route.

Here's the thing: we just do not map unofficial routes. Only the ones that are 
signposted. There are enough sites where you can submit your route 
suggestions, and there's no reason why this should be in the OSM database.

Greetings
Ben