On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 17:42, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my country (Italy) there are literally thousands of ways where it is most 
> likely legal to pass by bicycle, but there is no (practical) way of finding 
> out.
> Essentially two classes:
>
> - plenty of ways that look from the layout like combined foot-cycle paths but 
> have  no signage at all

How are these ways tagged currently - highway=path? footway?
pedestrian? What is the default bicycle access if no tag is present?

> - plenty of service roads which show the "no transit for any vehicle" sign, 
> but in reality you can happily pass with your bicycle and no policeman will 
> ever say anything, or even know that "no vehicle" legally includes "no 
> bicycle", There are plenty of cases where even signposted cycle routes follow 
> such roads.

This gets tricky. To give an obvious example, if vast majority of
drivers exceeds a posted speed limit and a driver would never get
pulled over for going anything less than 15 km/h above posted speed
limit, what if anything should we tag for maxspeed=*?

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