On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:09 PM, David Calder <davidjcal...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a travelling cyclist I need to know if I am going to be able to take a > particular road or not before I get there. I know bicycles are not permitted > on motorways/autobahns/autovias etc so I suspect that it is implied that > bicycle=no on roads designated as such on the Map. But sometimes, you can be > travelling along a normal main road - a road=primary or road=trunk for > example and suddenly you'll come across a sign like this: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/67276...@n00/4147702071/ > > and then find yourself having to re-route your journey adding another 20, > 30, 40km - not nice to find out just as it's getting dark. I've yet to see a > paper map that will give you this information, so bicycle=no in the legal > sense on OSM is very important to me. Just my 2p...
I don't think anyone is suggesting not tagging this as bicycle=no. The issue, as I see it, is what to do with roads and paths where there is _not_ a sign that specifies whether or not you may cycle there. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
