Allow cycling on footways

[Robinlovelace]

In some cases, e.g. when researching safe routes to school, it is useful to allow cycling on footways. This is especially the case in places where tagging is not complete. For example, this footpath in Leeds is definitely cyclable and a nice place to go by bike, with good surface quality and plenty of width for walking and cycling and more, in fact it's a place where many people first learn to ride a bike: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/306849934#map=17/53.81989/-1.52460

But {r5r} prevents calculation of trips on it currently, as shown below. Any way to change that?

[Robinlovelace]

Even less realistic, I notice that this way is a no go for cycling according to R5. It seems to happen where the road becomes one way for driving, it splits in 2 but is the same road and just as cyclable. This does not make sense: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/615612433

[rafapereirabr]

Hi @Robinlovelace , thanks for carefully looking into this. It looks like an important improvement , but I'm afraid this cannot not be done from the r5r side. I think this should perhaps be an issue upstream in R5.

[Robinlovelace]

No problem @rafapereirabr thanks to you+team for the development and continued work on the great package. I'll open an issue upstream. FYI I did make changes to the OSM data, adding bicycle=yes that should make it routable. No idea re. the one way driving route though, will ask the R5 people.

[Robinlovelace]

Superseded by conveyal/r5#836