I agree with you but the NCC pathways have been brought in from either CANVEC or yahoo imagery by others. The cycle lanes on roads have been mapped by direct observation, as have the paved_shoulders ie existing roads noted and tagged so these aren't a problem.
Some cycle paths through city parks have been added in the past I assume from GPS traces looking at the GPS traces available and also from CANVEC and some are tagged Yahoo imagery. I need to clarify with the city how to determine which and if the city paths in parks / paths anyway are officially open to cyclists. They are doing a licensing review currently so that should help on the licensing side. The signed cycle roads aren't a problem, the unsigned roads currently are a problem but these can be left off the OSM map. Cheerio John On 13 September 2010 12:58, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > You have to make sure that the map you are looking at isn't under > copyright before basing any OSM tagging on data referenced from the > map. > > James > VE6SRV > > On 9/13/10, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
