This dashed/solid distinction applies to the US as well (though some states, such as Oregon, make lanes that have restrictions such as mandatory turns or specific traffic types, separated by double-width lines as well).
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Richard Mann < [email protected]> wrote: > I think shared_lane is used when the bikes are sharing the lane with cars, > perhaps with a cycle logo in the centre of the lane. Sharrows are when > there are cycle logos to one side, but no lane marking (not very common in > the UK; I've seen them in Brussels alongside parked cars, and they're more > often referred to in the US). > > The main distinction in the UK is between solid white line ("mandatory"), > which means it's exclusive to bikes (cars "must" not enter), and a dashed > white line ("advisory") where cars should try not to enter. There is no > obligation on the cyclist to use or stay in those lanes, and drivers should > be prepared for a cyclist pulling out to overtake a slower cyclist (though > whether that is culturally accepted in practice varies by location). > > For clarity, I'd probably go for cycleway:designation=Radfahrstreifen or > cycleway:designation=Schutzstreifen, so someone who knows the rules is > absolutely clear what you mean. You can try adding appropriate access tags > for the cycleway and maybe the roadway as a whole > (bicycle=no|discouraged+cycleway:bicycle=yes|designated), but the odds of > this being done clearly and widely enough to be useful are dubious. As you > say the bicycle=no might lead to some unintended effects, so maybe it would > be better as roadway:bicycle=no|discouraged. > > Richard > > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Balgofil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in the German Forum [1] we had a discussion about cycle lanes (with a >> lot of off-topic talk). In Germany there are two different kind of >> bicycle lanes: >> >> 1. "Radfahrstreifen": cycle lanes which are mandatory indicated by a >> sign and a solid lane (cycleway=lane) >> >> 2. "Schutzstreifen" cycle lanes with dashed lines not so wide as a >> "Radfahrstreifen" and therefore only advisory and no sign (cycleway=?) >> >> So one solution that was pointed out in the thread is to tag the >> "Schutzstreifen" with cycleway=shared_lane because of the description >> in the wiki. I then pointed out, that in the UK there is a similar >> situation, but no solution to it (see [2] Limitations). But I don't >> know what is meant with cycleway=shared_lane. So can someone specify >> what is meant by this tag? >> >> My solution would be to tag a "Radfahrstreifen" with cycleway=lane AND >> cycleway:bicycle=designated and a "Schutzstreifen" with cycleway=lane >> AND cycleway:bicycle=designated. But this will break >> backward-compatibility. >> >> In the wiki there is also a tag for sharrows. But the description >> starts with "As shared_lane, ...". Does that mean that sharrows are >> tagged with cycleway=shared_lane, or is cycleway=sharrow the tag >> describing the markings on the road? >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> Balgofil >> >> >> >> [1] = http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=19585 >> [2] = http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycleway >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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