I'd recommend bicycle=no and I live in Ottawa. In Ottawa footpaths that
connect in general are bicycle=yes as they come under municipal
regulation but a sidewalk on a highway comes under provincial
legislation which bans bicycles on sidewalks. Sparks street is fun I
think you are not permitted to ride your bicycle but I'm unsure if this
is provincial, municipal or it might even be NCC which is federal of course.
In the UK they are banned by law but in certain cities the Chief
Constable has stated the law will not be enforced within the police
force boundaries as a letter of interpretation. It might be nice for
Ottawa to do the same sometime but there again we have City of Ottawa
police, OPP, RCMP and of course the PPS.
Cheerio John
James wrote on 2020-04-03 10:25 AM:
I don't think it's more tagging for the renderer as much as it's being
more specific(more data) to specify a abstract view: without knowledge
of Canadian/Provincial/Municipal laws about biking on sidewalks.
I think Montreal and Gatineau are more enforced as Ottawa it is
illegal to bike on the sidewalk, but people are still doing it, but
that's beside the point.
On Fri., Apr. 3, 2020, 10:18 a.m. Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais via Talk-ca,
<talk-ca@openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org>> wrote:
Hi!
I would like to start a discussion on how we should deal with
sidewalks tagged separately, like it is is done in downtown Ottawa
and like we are starting to do in the Montreal region.
The issue is that by default highway=footway with or without
footway=sidewalk should have an implicit bicycle=no by default
according to this page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions
However, some osm users told me I should tag them with bicycle=no
everywhere because routing engines use sidewalks for bicycle
routing which is illegal in most part of Canada.
What are your thoughts on this ? Should we adapt to routing
engines or should routing engines fix the issue themselves?
Thanks!
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