On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 03:42, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you consider mtb=designated? > This was considered and mentioned in the rationale, mtb as a key is better use as a mode specific access tag, which makes mtb=designated to usually mean signposted or otherwise indicated for use by mountain bikes, its a more formal endorsement that the way is for use by that mode. Sometimes mountain bike tracks are evident as such on the ground due to track construction and common usage, but have no signage or other indication that they are for use by mountain bikes so I think mtb=designated would be a mis-step in that case as it says it's officially designated which it's not. Secondly because you might have other highway types like highway=track which are signposted as for use by mountain bikes you'd have highway=track + mtb=designated, but it's still a highway=track not a singletrail mountain bike track. Are there implications for pedestrians, riders and "other" cyclists? > Motorbikes? (Question is, are they allowed, not allowed, or maybe allowed > in absence of explicit specific access tags?) > I believe it's always better to explicitly tag the access tags to indicate who can use the way, so I'd always encourage setting foot= and bicycle= (mountain bikes are a type of bicycle so usually the legal restriction applies to any kind of bicycle) Data consumers would need to decide what defaults they could use if not supplied, that would be their chose, a mapper shouldn't rely on this default. Personally I'd assume foot=yes, bicycle=yes, horse=no, motorbike=no as defaults where you only have highway=path + path=mtb.
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