On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 1:30 AM Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We do not need a new highway tag value "singletrack". > Was only making a suggestion to kick the discussion around to what we are actually mapping, because I dislike leisure=track and highway=cycleway. I independently read the Wikipedia article, > You read more than me, I just know singletrack from walking, running, riding and building them. and had come to the conclusion that a singletrack is clearly > highway=path; surface=unpaved; width=*; mtb:scale=*; mtb:scale:uphill=*; > mtb:scale:downhill=* and any other tag form the wiki page Mountain biking > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mountain_biking> > Yep agreed, that is what I've been using for years as documented on the wiki. Singletrack is so varied that the highway=path definition of "A non-specific path" does actually do a good job at describing it. Every now and then I find some highway=path that should be highway=track but it usually was added nearly a decade ago so people are doing better today. It does not need foot=yes and bicycle=yes, as this is implicit. > A highway=path is, according the wiki, a "singletrack" ("If a path is wide > enough for 4-wheel-vehicles (wider than 2 m), and it is not legally > signposted or otherwise only allowed for pedestrians, cyclists or > horseriders, it is often better tagged as a highway > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=track > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack> or highway > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=service > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice>") > It is not different from any mountain trail here. There is no preference > for MTBs according Wikipedia. It is shared with hikers. > Agreed, I made no indication it was different in Australia, just that no one calls them cycleways (or cycle paths) here, also fairly rare to have MTB-only trails on public land here too. And the doubletrack shown on the same page is identical with any > run-of-the-mill forest road here in Europe, which we usually tag as > highway=track. And unfortunately I would call this specific one a > single-track forest road. :-( > Yep, highway=track for that one. Oh, but there are two tracks from left and right tyres :| -- Jono
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