On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> For starters, in many places roads > with bike lanes prohibit cycling outside the bike lane. And since > there isn't much difference between a shoulder and a bike lane, it > doesn't make sense to distinguish between "bicycle=yes" and > "bicycle=shoulder_only". > I wouldn't suggest tagging a road with bicycle=yes if bicycles are only permitted in a bike lane either. How's a router supposed to know how to handle turns if it thinks the bikes are allowed to use the road? Secondly...I really can't see how the presence or absence of bicycle > restrictions changes the status of the road at all. And I can't see how it doesn't. A motorway is a road which, among other things, is restricted to motor vehicle traffic. A road which allows bicycles doesn't fit that definition. Of course, if the bicycles aren't allowed on the roadway - only on the shoulder...I don't know. OSM doesn't have good per-lane tagging yet, so no answer is particularly good. But any answer which doesn't at least give the information that bicycles are permitted only on the shoulder (i.e. bicycle=yes) would be unacceptable. In my area, some freeways allow bicycles, some don't. It would be completely incorrect > to presume that those that don't are "more freeway-like". > OSM doesn't have a tag of "freeway", so I don't know what you're getting at. > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.836649,144.801765&z=19&t=h&nmd=20100416 > > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.790341,145.039779&z=19&t=k&nmd=20100416 > > You tell me which of those is a highway=motorway and which is a > highway=trunk. I'm not familiar enough with how traffic works there to offer a guess. The exit/entrance ramps don't seem to provide for a bicycle lane in either location. Are bicycles allowed to travel in the same lanes as motor vehicles?
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