Use of bicycle=designated vs bicycle=yes OUTSIDE of Germany

[ezekielf (Zeke Farwell)]

I’ve used bicycle=designated to mean designed and managed for bicycles as documented on the wiki. However, this piece of information is not about access so it would probably be better if wasn’t part of the access tagging scheme. I consider bicycle=designated and bicycle=yes to have exactly the same meaning with regards to access.

@ezekielf

@SomeoneElse

Right now we have one tag value trying to store two pieces of information - “what is the legal right of access of traffic mode X” and “was this highway=whatever designed for the use of traffic mode X”.

Yes, this is the core of the issue. designated does not make sense as an access value. It seems people have been pointing this out since 2008 . We should have a parallel scheme to specify the transport mode a way is designed/intended/designated to be to used by. Something like designated:for=moped;carriage;horse;etc would make sense if data consumers could be counted on to reliably parse semicolon delimited values.