On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 00:01, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think using leisure=track for a mountain bike path is even more > misleading than highway=cycleway. > > A feature with leisure=track is usually an oval racing track for > runners, track cyclists, or similar sports. This tag is simply not > used for mountain bike paths; > > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Sjk - only 89 ways (including loops, like > mtb pump tracks) > > By contrast, highway=cycleway + mtb=designated has been used 558 > times: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Sjl And when you consider mtb:scale*=* + highway=cycleway that number goes up to 3500 ( https://github.com/cyclosm/cyclosm-cartocss-style/issues/208#issuecomment-607633737) so indeed it's widely occurring in the OSM database. > Clearly many mappers consider highway=cycleway an appropriate tag for > a designated mountain bike path. > > However, it's true that highway=path is used more commonly with > mtb=yes and mtb=designated: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Sjo - over > 13,000 occurences. > > Unfortuately only a little over half of those ways have a surface=* > tag - adding those tags would be more productive than arguing about > whether to use highway=cycleway or highway=path. (See > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Sjp) > If we stick with using highway=cycleway then perhaps the solution is to document mtb as an access mode, so mtb=designated can be used to indicate mountain bike tracks and data consumers, routers and renders just need to check that tag.
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