On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 2:16 PM Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:39 AM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:00 PM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> > wrote: > > > Not exactly helping is that the US tends to also confuse form and > access, calling things "multipurpose paths" even when they are clearly > purpose built for a specific mode and possibly even do have specific mode > restrictions. > > > > True enough. Still, there are a lot of rail-trails and the like where > > foot, bicycle, and XC ski travel were all contemplated from the moment > > that the trail was paved. There are also a bunch of recreational > > trails near me that I'd be hard put to identify whether foot or MTB is > > the 'primary' use. And farther out in the sticks, there are a bunch > > of old carriage roads that were redesignated footways and have > > subsequently been opened to MTB travel as well. (Some of these are > > grown to trees to the point where I don't feel comfortable labeling > > them with `highway=track`.) > Here is an example of a major trail in the area where I live: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/385367054 which someone has tagged as a > cycleway. I have biked, walked and ran this trail many different times > over the years and I have no indication that it was built for a specific > purpose. On a typical day I would say that non cyclists outnumber cyclist. > I also just visited the websites for the various entities that manage the > trail, and there is no indication I could find that it was built for a > single purpose. It is a general recreation trail. I suspect the > "cycleway" tag was used so that it would show up in some cycling specific > renderer... but I can't say that for sure. > Possibly old version of the way had lanes and signage, which got deleted in a more recent rebuild? Or just bad tagging? Either way, looking at it in id's default imagery I'd say that definitely looks like a path to me now, barring any on the ground knowledge. Though the width and turn radii on curves tends to make me think they wanted it to be a cycleway but then either chickened out or downgraded it at the last minute.
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