It is no longer clear to me what is being proposed since two different situations are involved.

1. There are situations where there are signs telling a cyclist to dismount. He/she can continue on the way, pushing the bike. To tag these situations the current solution is to tag "bicycle=dismount". The original question was: "is it an 'official' sign?" The answer seems to be, yes, in some jurisdictions (e.g. the UK). We also have a similar sign in the Netherlands (although the legal status is not entirely clear). Where there is a sign (and only in those situations), it makes sense to tag it accordingly. So there is no reason to "deprecate" the tag. Possibly other tagging solutions need to be found where there is no explicit signage but there are general rules (e.g. in Italy).

2. A different situation is where a cyclist is explicitly forbidden to push the bike (e.g. through a pedestrian area) after dismounting. The assumption is that a cyclist pushing a bike is to be treated as a pedestrian, and may normally use a sidewalk, pedestrian zone, etc.
Where that is not allowed, we need a different tag.
I don't like bicycle:dismount=no since it suggests to me that you do not have to dismount. (On pragmatic grounds, I wouldn't tag this anyway because I don't expect routers to use highway=footway or area=pedestrian for bicycle routing.)


On 10.10.2013 16:28, fly wrote

+1 for a separate tag and deprecating  bicycle=dismount

On 08.10.2013 18:46, Tod Fitch wrote:
Would bicycle:dismount be better than bicycle_dismount? Seems like that
would be more in keeping with current key naming conventions.

The convention did change a bit by time and now ":" is more common than
"_" but at the end it does not really matter.


"Janko Mihelić" <jan...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think dismount should be a key, not a value - bicycle_dismount=yes/no.

    On a typical sidewalk we have bicycle=no + bicycle_dismount=yes.

    On some pedestrian streets in Netherlands we have bicycle=no +
    bicycle_dismount=no

    When bicycle_dismount is not tagged, it is the same as foot=*.

Bicycle=dismount is the same as bicycle=no + bicycle_dismount=yes.

+1

cu fly



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