Good post! Perhaps the wiki should be extended to also mention other forms of cycling. Of course, there will be some differences in mapping for different countries, but some general text might be useful anyway.

I agree, well written!

In 2015 I started biking mainly to be able to go further on my mapping adventures. It quickly turned me into a mountain-biker!

Regarding trails that may be a bit overgrown: you can use the trail_visility tag to at least partly take the overgrown bit into account.

Keep up the good work!

This is one of the things I love about OSM. Well, not the urine deflectors as such, but the possibility to work on rather differens things. Not only are there thousands of people mapping the world together, but there is also plenty of room for each of us to map whatever we happen to find interesting. Some map only individual trees, others abandoned buildings, or urine deflectors. Cheers!

When I map an area in Sweden, I usually look at an old national map to add older placenames. I think that even though there is not a large “audience” for this, it is nice to add them as it will make the map more complete and it will help “remembering” these places. I mainly do this on places that used to be old farms/isolated dwellings that are nowadays only a pile of stones, old fields etc.

I know OSM is not a historical map, but as long as the names are used by locals or there is something left “on the ground” from an old house or similar, I think it may be added to the map.

Oh, fantastic, thanks!

Very nice! The interface is clean, intuitive and easy to use.

As a cyclist, there is one feature that I miss in all Openstreetmap-based routing-services and probably most others as well; the ability to select preferred road surface. Among gravel cyclist, many prefer gravel roads over tarmac and it would be fantastistic if this was an option somehow. Though I realize also that many roads in Openstreetmap do not have any surface information.

Anyway; nice work!

Yes, OSM is a non-profit organization, but we do not simply publish the information on “my map”, we convert it into information that is shared using the ODBL-license, which in turn means that anyone, including for-profit companies, can use the data as they see fit.

To be sure, I recommend raising this question on the Swedish OSM maillist or the Swedish OSM Facebook group, so that others that are more experienced in these issues may help us.