I have transfer the thread to the tagging discussion.
2010/7/29 Daniel Tremblay <[email protected]> > Thank you Ramey and Xan for your interest. I'll think about your > suggestions. > > Honestly Xan, I was thinking about something a lot more simple than what > you suggest. Your suggestion goes far beyond my need and I understand that, > if we want to formalize something, we have to answer as much needs as we > can. > > If I come back to my little cyclist need, I wonder if I could simply put > cycleway=shoulder. That would show that: there is a shoulder, it is large > enough to accomodate cycling, cycling is authorized on this road, shoulder > is not reserved for emergency, ... With about the same logic in mind, I > could say cycleway=no_shoulder, meaning that that road is often used by > cyclists and the traffic is low enough for a relatively safe sharing of the > road between car and bicycle even if there is pratically no shoulder (I have > an example of that near my home). > > As I am suggesting adding values to the cycleway tag, I still believe that > the shoulder indicator would be usefull ... > > Let think a little bit more about this ... > > > >> Daniel, I'm insterested in that. If you formalize it, please, alert me. >> I think it could be useful: >> - shoulder={yes,no} >> - shoulder:width=5 m >> - shoulder:side={left,right,both} >> - shoulder:line={continuous, dashed,....} (see [1]) >> - shoulder:access = [all the access] (in some countries, the >> shoulder is for emergency purposes, depending on highway pedestrians and >> biclycles could use it, in some countries it could be used for buses..) >> > > > > > >
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