I tend to agree with Nicholas Barker and Steve Bennett. When I was heavily involved in editing the map in Canberra, I had to decide how to tag cycle networks. I chose to only use lcn for those routes which were signed. i.e. had those blue signs with arrows showing a destination. And I added all related ways to a relation and labelled the relation as lcn.
This was because it was clearly an attempt by the local government to create a network, and I felt openstreetmap should reflect that. This meant some “highway=footway” were included in the lcn relation, because that was what was on the ground. There were also “highway=cycleway” which I didn’t add to the lcn network, just because they didn't yet have signposts (maybe not ever). I only did the cycle paths, not the on-road routes. This is much harder to e.g. Sydney CBD where there are routes and some infrastructure, but only recently such destination signs were erected. So I understand the local taggers use lcn directly on ways. Which to me just means that different locations should tag things differently. In Newcastle, I’ve been tagging from council documents, because I doubt local council is going to do much work in putting signs up, even though they have recently been putting infrastructure in. I don’t though, use ncn, because there is no nationwide body building bicycle networks. For this reason, I think the current ncn tags on the roads between Canberra and Sydney, and Newcastle to Maitland just shouldn’t be there. But I don’t ride those routes, so will leave them be. I think that my map-drawing should reflect what is on the ground. Adding a route to lcn/rcn just because “this is a good route because of elevation or because lots of people use it” should not be the case. That would be a job for me with a bicycle-advocacy hat on to ask a local body to put signs up. Editing a map is much easier, well-meaning, but I also think less honest.
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