Locally in Ottawa many paths are multiuse there is a path many kilometers long along the Ottawa river that has a line marked down the center and is very much used by cyclists but according to NCC who own the path it is multi-use not bicycles only so is mapped highway=path. Most City of Ottawa paths are the same, bicycles are permitted but they are not cycleways.
I worked with City of Ottawa bicycle specialist on this starting on why one path in a park was marked as a bicycle path whilst another in the same park of identical width was not. Eventually we arrived at all paths except those that are marked no bicycles are multiuse paths ie bicycles are permitted. Multiuse means skateboards, wheelchairs, skis etc. We had 25 cms of snow today and many paths are not ploughed. There aren't many conventional bicycles that can use the paths under these conditions. Cheerio John On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 at 18:42, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 5:06 PM James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Bike advocacy group in Ottawa created this: >> >> >> https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide/blob/master/README.md >> >> as well as a crowd sourced map like the one for winter bike trails that >> allows a user to submit if a path is winter maintained or not, it will then >> update OSM in the back end: maps.bikeottawa.ca >> > > Did notice an error. It's suggesting a cycleway with a sidewalk be tagged > as highway=path instead of highway=cycleway. > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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