On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 07:03:33PM +0100, Dermot McNally wrote:
On 8 August 2010 17:41, Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@iki.fi> wrote:
shoulders) but the only choice in the area. I believe that the default style (correctly) does add bicycle=no to highway=trunk. When I get
If this is so, then the default should be changed. The fact that various countries have overloaded trunk for their own usage is not a reason to force everybody else to add redundant tags to thousands of km of road.
I think that it has to be done on a case-by-case basis. If there is a lesser road nearby, then the default (bicycle=no) is OK. If there is no other practical choice or there is only light traffic on the road, then bicycle=yes makes sense. I would say that bicycle=no is a sensible default for highway=trunk. By the way, at least in Finland, many cycleways are still missing, especially outside cities. There are some cycleways along some trunk roads, close to more densely inhabited areas. Marko