Bicycling

As someone who uses open street maps for statistics/analysis to advocate better bike infrastructure; please contribute to open street maps not google.

You can easily do exactly what you were saying; open up an existing road, add an attribute to it saying bike_friendly: true. Just login (on desktop), go to the part of the map you want to edit, click edit at the top and do the walkthrough. It should look like this

Side rant: The google maps API for analyzing data is so bad it might as well not exist. Even ignoring the painful signup process AUTH tokens, cost of usage, and crappy docs; it doesn't provide access to basically any useful information about roads. Meanwhile open street maps is so easy you don't even need an account; just run a browser command and scrape any data you want, including downloading the entire database.