When to add bike/foot path or unclassified road

Timmel · February 20, 2020, 9:13pm

Hey,

as of lately I’ve been adding quite a lot of roads, which are mostly bike/foot paths.

By saying this it porbably seems that I should just add them as those, but since there are a lot of roads that are just very small but somehow still act as if they were paths I started to wonder if there is somewhat of a guidline for this.

To clarify, in the picture below you can see a “real” bike/foot path (as they appear when marked like that) on the top and an “unmarked” path in the middle.

Maybe someone has some info for me.

Greetings,

Tim

C_T · February 20, 2020, 10:04pm

Hello, @Timmel

I have not come across any such guidelines to date.

Nevertheless, there can be a checklist like

Creation of road is going to help the community to navigate better.
People are using that regularly & it’s not an unauthorized shortcut.
It’s safe to use.
The path is visible in a satellite view.

In short, one should suggest the road addition to benefit everybody & not for scoring some points.

TsekoV · February 21, 2020, 4:55am

Hello @Timmel ,

Thanks for reaching out! The details about adding a missing cycle track are the same you could follow to add a missing road. What you have to do is to add as many details you can in the feedback report.

You can take a look at this guideline article.

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