The city where I live has ~200 km of bicycle paths (usually a part of the sidewalks are marked with green paint). Does anyone knows how to add them in Google Maps so they can be used by everyone?
Hello @RaduD
I know many such roads where the adjacent pavement also serves as a bicycle path.
However, I do not find any demarcation to define that.
Nevertheless, if you know a certain road section has a distinct bicycling path but navigation in Maps does not display that as a mode of transportation, then you will have to use the send feedback route to correct that discrepancy.
You can add them using the add road feature in Android @RaduD marking them as a bike path for the type.
The feature is described here
https://support.google.com/local-guides/answer/9157791
Paul
Hi @RaduD
In addition to @PaulPavlinovich excellent answer, I would encourage you to visit Amsterdam or Copenhagen on Google Maps. Melbourne is way behind in bicycle infrastructure 
Turning on the Bicycle layer shows you 4 different path types that can be specified as shown in the photo below.
Don’t expect to find the same level of detail in all regions.
I’m sure the bike paths in Copenhagen are imported into Google Maps directly from the municipality’s data. You may want to suggest that your local authorities also deliver the data directly to Google saving Local Guides a lot of work and for sure the data quality will be much higher and easily/frequently updated.
You can read more about Google Maps Base Map Partner program here:
https://maps.google.com/help/maps/mapcontent
Your Municipality will appreciate getting to know this link if they are not already aware of it.
Cheers
Morten
Hi @C_T
If you chose to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk here in Copenhagen pedestrians will frown upon you. And you are very likely to get a fine should the police see you doing so.
Just a friendly joke pointing out some of the huge differences across the globe and how Google Maps adapts to the differences in local environments.
Cheers
Morten
Thanks for the information @MortenCopenhagen
However, I frequently walked on the sidewalks of roads at Austin Tx. These also double up as bicycle path. I found that to be prevalent in many places in the US. Interestingly, cyclists never disturb any pedestrian. Momentarily they ride on the adjacent road & then again come back to the cycle path.
However, the systems can vary from place to place.
@MortenCopenhagen , @PaulPavlinovich @C_T
This is how the bicycle path looks like in our city.
On the green lane the bicycles have priority.
On the other one pedestrians have priority.
I understood you point @RaduD
These kinds of demarcated cycle path & walkways are in my city also.
Most of the city roads in the world posses dedicated walkways (Footpaths as in EN-UK). However, Maps never shows them separately. These are part & parcel of the adjacent roads.
It’s something similar to multiple lanes on the road.
Lanes are always there. However, we realise their existence only when we start navigating on those. Till then, Maps never displays those distinctly.
We do similar here @RaduD except that our bike paths are all bidirectional. Some are bike only (these are green) and some are shared (these are black). Some of the green ones are on the foot path like these or they’re on the road way, in the city recently the parking has either been removed or shifted a metre sideways and a bike line introduced between parked cars and the curb.
I love it that more cities are doing this. It is possible to get from nearly every suburb to nearly every other suburb in my city of Melbourne by bike. In the new highway tunnel under the Yarra River they are intending to include a bidirectional bike path on a level above the road.
Paul