Hi, A discussion in CyclOSM issue tracker [1] spotted that there exists around 3500 highway=cycleway around the world which have specific mountain bikes (MTB) tags. In particular, around 800 highway=cycleway around the world declare a mtb:scale greater than 2, which would make them impassable without a proper mountain bike. Such cycleways would not be passable with a regular city bike. One example of such a case is at [2].
Looking at the wiki page [3], "the highway=cycleway tag indicates a separate way for the use of cyclists" which does not mandate explicitly that a cycleway be accessible with any kind of bikes and should also cover dedicated paths for MTB. However, the documentation around cycleways and bike features is very oriented towards city cycling and there is no illustration about MTB-specific cycleways. So, is this considered a valid tagging or should it be represented by another highway class (path, track, etc)? If this is valid, I propose to add a statement in the wiki explicitly mentioning that cycleways can be restricted for specific kinds of bicycles, for future questions. Best, [1] https://github.com/cyclosm/cyclosm-cartocss-style/issues/208 [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/86978431#map=17/41.26426/-73.91907 [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dcycleway -- Phyks _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
