On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Mike Collinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:24 PM 8/05/2008, Karl Eichwalder wrote: > >>Inge Wallin schrieb: >> >>> Yes, that is indeed what it is. I haven't tracked it yet, but there is >>> also a >>> mountain bike track in that area. I suppose that should be tagged: >>> >>> highway=cycleway >>> sport=mountainbike >>> >>> Except... these are not really ways at all, but narrow tracks through the >>> woods that are not suitable for anything really, except mountainbiking. >> >>So go for highway=mtb_track, please. Do not expect old renderers or routers >>to know about the sport=mountainbike restriction with a sudden. > > +1 to highway=mtb_track > > These are paths specifically designed for mountain bike use and fun, often > deliberately not following the natural terrain an ordinary path would and > often a circuit not taking you anywhere useful. > > I take the point that other paths are of varying suitability for road / > hydrid / mountain bikes and that it is hard to objectively catagorise them > ... but that is not relevant I think, highway=cycleway is fine for them > (though a simple subjective classification as proposed in another thread does > not seem a bad idea).
I completely agree with you and Dave that there's a distinction between highway=cycleway and mtb tracks. If anyone is in any doubt, here's a handy guide: 1) Open this video : http://youtube.com/watch?v=fDVXIBgM4kI 2) Skip forward to 0:58 3) Accept that highway=cycleway would be very misleading! As for the actual tag, I don't care. I've got a lot of mtb tracks still[1] to tag, so if someone beats me to it I'll use whatever they are using, otherwise I'll just wield the Sword Of Arbitrary Tagging at some point over the weekend[2]. I think it's important that there are three distinct concepts: A) MTB tracks. usually rocky, deliberately dangerous, purpose-built, single direction, stunts, dropoffs and so on. B) mtb = yes - a tag to show that you can ride on a mountain bike - maybe a footpath or a rocky mountain road. Makes most sense if it's bicycle=no, mtb=yes (no bikes except mountain bikes) C) route = mtb - a signed mountain biking route. Might be on roads, paths, MTB tracks. Implies *signs* and that kind of thing, like normal cycle routes[3] Cheers, Andy [1] lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-March/012247.html [2] Ha. It's 18 months and counting. Don't hold your breath. [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Cycle_routes _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
