On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 3:10 AM Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My view based on current usage, reading of the wiki and general opinion is > that highway=cycleway is meant for any path that is either > designed/intended for bicycles or specifically designated (signposted) for > bicycles, irrespective of if it's an urban track or mountain biking track. > > So a mountain bike track and an urban cycle track should both be tagged > with highway=cycleway as the primary tag. surface= and smoothness= can help > for both to help guide users on which kind of bicycle the track is suitable > for, and mtb:scale=/mtb:scale:imba= are used to indicate this is a > designated mountain biking track. > > highway=path is specifically for a general use / unspecified path, which a > mountain biking track may be if it's informal/shared, but purpose built and > signposted mountain bike tracks don't fall into that category. > > A similar thing applies to hiking tracks, sometimes they are designated > walking paths so use highway=footway + surface + sac_scale, but sometimes > they are just an unmarked or mixed use path so are highway=path + surface + > sac_scale. > This is also my read on it. But we also need more than just highway=path/cycleway and sometimes footway for bicycle facilities, there's a bigger hierarchy than this. Also seen a lot of situations where highway=cycleway_link would be handy.
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