I suggest a good consensus basically following the rest of the world
would be:
1) If a path is clearly marked for use by bicycles then use
bicycle=designated. I.e. "there ARE signs present to indicate bikes
are expressily permitted".
2) If a path has no signage barring cycling and no clear law or bylaw
preventing it, such as for unsigned sidewalks in most (all?) Australian
states and it is practical to use by bicycle, then use bicycle=yes. In
the real world we cannot expect every legal usage of everything to be
explicitly signed, it does not make sense.
BTW, the way mentioned is a grass strip used mainly for pedestrian
access. It was tagged by me and I use it regularly by bicycle when
working in that area. There is no earthly reason for removing. I think
the user is basically mixing "yes" and "designated". I should also add
that other types of edits by him are completely in order and I continue
to welcome him in our OSM community.
Mike
On 2022-10-07 11:22, [email protected] wrote:
Hi
I have been monitoring the edits by a user who still "changes shared
paths to footpaths as no signs present to indicated bikes are
permitted" in Victoria Australia.
Most of these changes are small ways where there are unlikely to be
serious consequences, its not worth the petrol (or electricity in this
case for my Nissan Leaf) to go out and inspect the way and I have said
nothing.
I have commented on way 1008258040 in Changeset: 126886850 where
bicycle=yes by the previous editor has been removed because there were
"no signs present to indicated bikes are permitted"
There is good street level imagery. It is not a footpath in the
sidewalk sense. It looks OK for bicycles to me. Sorry to bother but I
request a clear community consensus again on whether "no signs present
to indicated bikes are permitted" is of itself sufficient evidence
that bicycles are disallowed.
Sorry to bother you all
Tony
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