highway=path foot=yes bicycle=no mtb=yes highway=footway implies foot=designated and highway=cycleway implies bicycle=designated. foot=yes means you can walk there while designated means it's the primary choise of route for pedestrians.
See also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness Konrad 2009/11/28 Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com>: > [...] > > 6) Places where a bike is probably permissible, but most people > wouldn't ride. (But I would :)) I'm not sure where the division of > responsibility for correctly handling bike routing lies, between the > OSM data, and the routing software. Is there any software smart enough > to give options like "how far are you willing to push the bike" or > "are you willing to cut across grass?" etc. An example is at a > university I used to ride through to get to work. I used to ride > around the side of an oval, and cut down through some trees on an a > true "unofficial path" - basically mountain biking. Do you mark it in > as an unofficial walking path, and tag it with appropriate mountain > biking paths, and assume the bike routing software is smart enough not > to route city bikes that way? > > Maybe I'm looking for a distinction between "bicycle=no" and > "bicycle=forbidden". > > [...] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
