[mkgmap-dev] new bicycle access rules

Sat May 24 13:35:03 BST 2014

Minko wrote:
> This week a new tag has been approved, bicycle=use_sidepath
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/use_sidepath
>
> This tag will be used on main highways with compulsory adjacent cycleways.
> There were a lot of objections to tag these with bicycle=no because there are also other ways with strictly forbidden bicycle signs, so this would form some 'softer' no than a 'hard' no. In mkgmap it should stay bicycle=no unless there is a better alternative (mkgmap:troughroute=no?).
>
> Suggestion to add this in the inc/access file:
>
> bicycle=private|bicycle=agricultural|bicycle=use_sidepath { set bicycle=no }
>

Surely the "standard" mkgmap settings should ignore wikifiddled values 
such as this until they're actually in wodespread use? Currently it 
doesn't seem to be used at all:

http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=use_sidepath#keys

Cheers,

Andy