Cycleway=track versus separately mapping
Hi.
I originally mapped a cycleway alongside Thorpe Road and Thorpe Lea Road in Pooley Green using a scheme like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycling_in_the_United_Kingdom#Cycle_tracks . This is a shared pavement, sometimes segregated by paint, with several crossings of side streets. This was deleted in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/77485289 so I restored it last week after visiting the area (see Mapillary).
I think that separately mapping cycleways is useful whwre these lose priority at side streets - journey planners can then take into account crossings and how easy it us to get to junctions on the other side of the road. In addition, in this case, tge changes in width and segregation are hard to taje into account with cycleway=track. Furthermore, where a cycleway has been separately mapped, deleting it causes a loss of fidelity.
See also https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/81083097 where another cycleway was deleted.
Can someone adjudicate please?
Jon