I've started a proposal
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-April/052174.html /
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:path%3Dmtb which
aims to take this discussion over to the next stage, if you everyone could
take a look at the new proposal and if discussion could happen on the new
thread I think that will help move this forward.

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:56, Phyks <ph...@phyks.me> wrote:

> 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
>
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> Phyks
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