I give up. Looks like openstreetmap will not be helpful for me. I will continue to document cycleways=lane, cycleways=track, *cn_ref as I see them in my neibourghood but will not try to go further than this.
Back to the primary objective of my suggestion: when I am preparing a cycling ride on unknown-to-me roads that are not marked as cycleways, I would like to know if those are bike-able: it is paved or not (already there), maxspeed (already there), is there a shoulder or not (not there), is there lot of traffic (actually, only the class of the road helps here - primary, secondary, tertiary, I can live with that), is there a sign for sharrow road (which is different than cyclways=lane IMO - I didn't know that English word before that discussion but I like it although it will have to be explained to non-native English audience like me). I don't care about rendering as long as I can view the tags in openstreetmap.org(overlays/data). Thank you to those who have taken time to discuss it here. Not sure we will ever come out with a consensus ... Seems I don't have the energy to fight here ... PS: I understand the need for the openstreetmap community to carefully define the tagging structure in order to meet as many needs as possible. It is not suitable that anybody tags anything anyhow. I understand and respect that. Daniel Tremblay
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