Stephen Gower wrote: >Sent: 01 May 2008 10:39 AM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Wide tracks with cycle access > >On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:39:15PM +0100, 80n wrote: >> >> bicycle=yes and surface=gravel are an incompatible combination in my book >;) > > There's gravel and there's gravel though - pea gravel like my > grandfather had on his drive (in the New Forest!) and had to rake > after cars had been over it is absolutely no good for cycling, > while a self-binding gravel such as seen on > http://www.pavingexpert.com/gravel05.htm is perfectly fine. I > cycle a section of the Thames Path on my daily commute that comes > into the latter category, and apart from the puddles tending to get > larger each time it rains, it's just as good as the asphalt > sections. > > The cycle paths in the New Forest are somewhere in between these > two categories - while the Thames Path one could reasonably be > labeled surface=dirt, the New Forest ones are definitely gravel, > but it's well compacted and many of them will be cycled on by > hundreds of people a week during the summer. > > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/35904 > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/388784 > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/35915 > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/87018 > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/381057 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_Forest_Cycle_path.jpg > > From these photos it can be seen that there's quite a variety even > within the National Park and depending on your style of bike you > might want to avoid some or all of them.
Perhaps this is the better way to think about it. I generally don't like subjective tagging, but in this instance giving an opinion about how usable a section of way is might be better. If you simplified bike types into "road", "hybrid" and "mtb" then I guess you could reasonably add say suitability_road / suitability_hybrid / suitability_mtb tags, or join them together as bicycle_suitability=road|hybrid|mtb and leave out any of the values where you consider its not suitable. Cheers Andy > > s > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >talk@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
