On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Dave Stubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >> Segregated cycle path: A path where cyclists and pedestrians are >> separated by a painted line or kerb. > > Sounds an awful lot like cycleway=track to me. > >> Shared cycle path: A path where cyclists and pedestrians share the >> full width of the path. > > That's what we, in Australia, call a "bike path" and tag > "highway=cycleway, foot=designated, bicycle=designated".
Aargh, what a lot of confusion. The cycleway=shared|segregated is an option for standalone ways (either highway=cycleway or highway=path) to indicate whether the bikes and pedestrians share the same tarmac. In the UK there are two white-on-blue street signs - one with a man and a bike beside one another with a white line between them (i.e. segregated) and one with the man above the bike and no dividing line (i.e. shared). There is a third sign (cycling only) but that can be expressed by bicycle=yes foot=no etc. See http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/transport/traffic/traffic_management/cycle_lane_road_markings.htm for examples. I have no idea how common / consistent these signs are around the world. They can't really be used on road-type highways, since they clash with the lane/track designation. >> Added by Shaun in December "to get more accurate cycle path >> information for routing purposes (e.g. CycleStreets)" > > That's all well and good for CycleStreets, but I'm iffy about having > it in an international edition of Potlatch. It makes choosing the > right cycleway tag absurdly difficult. Users shouldn't need to worry about this. If they can pick various options then the tags can be sorted out behind the scenes. > Another issue here...why is "a path where cyclists and pedestrians > share the full width of the path" an option on a *road*? Is it > implying that in addition to the road, there is a parallel shared bike > path? Eck...very unintuitive. That sounds like it's in error, I can have a look at map features to see what's going on. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Potlatch-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
