On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:56:53 +0200, fly wrote: > Am 29.07.2010 14:38, schrieb Daniel Tremblay: >> My need is to give cyclists more info when preparing their rides on >> road that are not cycleway (nor NCN, RCN, LCN). I saw the tag >> "rtc_rate" but not find it very intuitive. > > We need this kind of tags also for cycleways. I know many areas where > the international cycleway is using a quite heavy loaded street with > only a cyclelane next to it, where the parallel street is a nice calm > street. > > I think one tag is not enough or you have to be specific. > > If I am in a hurry with a race-bicycle, I would take the bigger roads > with cycle-lanes but if I cycle with a 7 year old child I would prefer > the low traffic road even if there is no cycleway at all. > >> My first thought was to document a little more some road by adding a >> shoulder tag (yes, no) and a traffic indicator tag (low, moderate, >> high). Both responders confirmed that those tags does not exist. For >> my cycling need, I would personnaly not go on a highway=secondary with >> no shoulder and moderate to high traffic ... But, even with high >> traffic, I might use that road if there is shoulder ... And, even >> without shoulder, I might go there if the traffic indicator is low. > > +1 > This is one way to add more useful information to a road. But we need at > least shoulder:surface, too
Why would this matter? Are there actually places where it's legal to operate off the hard surface when the road is paved? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
