The city has a cycling map which shows six different markings for cyclists. It's available both printed and on its web site.
Blue - NCC which is federal has park land through which it has cycle paths, these physically are marked with signs and a yellow line down the centre. Cyclists must give way to pedestrians on these. Green - City Mixed-Use pathways, these are fascinating my local park has one path so marked on the map but there are no signs in the park other than a more general sign restricting the use of snow mobiles and other powered vehicles. I have a query into the city to see if I can get a better definition of which city pathways you are allowed to ride your bike on. The local cyclists aren't much help, they ride on the sidewalk even if there is a cycle lane. The city of Ottawa amalgamated an number of cities and townships about five years ago and they are still trying to sort out which by-law applies where. Red - Conventional cycle lanes by the side of the road most of which are unploughed in winter so unusable. Lane markings and signed, fairly easy to spot. Orange - paved shoulders, usually a white line separates this from the road same as a cycle lane but no cycle lane sign. These I've decided to tag as cycle lanes paved_shoulders=yes then they can be picked out in JOSM should we decide to change the tag. Pink - Signed only bike routes these may or may not connect to a cycle path or cycle lane. Dotted pink - unsigned recommended bike routes again these may or may not connect to a cycle path or cycle lane. The city is moving to Opendata but the licensing needs to be amended to make it strictly compatible with OSM. Most Blue paths are well mapped as are the cycle lanes. The road network is in fairly good shape ie where two roads meet they do so on the map as well so running routing software should work nicely and its to assist the cycle routing software that I'm after how to tag. Thanks John On 13 September 2010 11:46, Alex Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/11/2010 08:06 AM, john whelan wrote: >> >> The city also has some roads that are recommended for cyclists but not >> signed, typically these connect roads with cycle lanes or dedicated >> cycle paths. > > How do you know they are they recommended, if there’s no sign? Does the > city have a brochure or map or something which publicises which routes are > recommended? > > I would expect they should be bicycle=designated: The way is a > preferred/designated route ... often marked by a traffic sign. > > Hope this helps > > -Alex Mauer “hawke” > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
