I think that unless there is explicit signage forbidding bicycles, the ways should be constructed to permit bicycles (particularly if usage of bicycles on that path is common). In other words, use highway=path (always my preferred), or if you must use highway=footway, add bicycle=yes.
Ian >Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 17:14:32 +1000 >From: Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> >To: Tony Forster <fors...@ozonline.com.au> >Cc: Sebastian Azagra Flores <s.aza...@me.com>, OSM Australian Talk > List <talk-au@openstreetmap.org> >Subject: Re: [talk-au] HighRouleur edits >Message-ID: > <CAD5VjstWcM7CwrEv1xkAx2=_65b84qw1wq89mfdsuh8vqzc...@mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >Hi Tony and Sebastian, >There's a lot to take in here, but it does look like both of you care deeply about cycle mapping in Melbourne and working with the best intentions to make OSM data as accurate and complete as possible. You're both >engaging in discussion of the actual changes so to me everything I see is happening in good faith. From a DWG perspective it doesn't appear there is any malice here. >Though there is clearly some disagreement about how certain things should be mapped even when you both have a common agreement of what's on the ground. >https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle#Bicycle_Restrictions provides some useful definitions of bicycle access tags, personally in my view we should be using bicycle=designated where clearly signposted for >bicycles weather that is by paint or signage bicycle=no where there is clear no bicycles signage >In the case of https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/671174716 it does appear to me to be ambiguous, so perhaps the best is exactly how it's currently mapped without a bicycle tag at all? That said, if there is a >signposted bicycle route which takes you through that way I think that should be enough to give it implied bicycle access, therefore bicycle=yes. >Is there a wider community view about this? _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
