I think the highway=cycle_service_area tag is both useful and specific enough. By the way, the highway=services tag is used to identify an area (we call them 'service areas" on the east coast) that has fuel, restrooms, water, food and parking for automobiles and trucks. I also use area=yes in conjunction with that tag to insure it is rendered as an area. I read that somewhere but now cannot find any reference to it in the Wiki description of highway=services. (??)
But that's beside the point. I like the tag you suggested. Dave On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:54 AM, John Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > I have come across an interesting mappable feature when out cycling last > weekend. > > The ~60 km long cycling roads along the Rivers here in Japan occasionally > have city operated facilities, and similar to the centuries old “road > stations” and the more recent motorway “Service areas”, I found a “Cycle > Center”, best described at a cycling service area. Someone has mapped it as > a building. > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/184976184 > > the Japanese phrase サイクリングセンター “Cycle Center” is used for these buildings. > this is a play off of the “road station” name, but tagging as > highway=cycle_service_area seems proper. This is where an east-west and > north-south cycling route cross, and the cycle center is a public facility. > It has public toilets, cycle parking, outdoor sinks, air pumps, small > information office, a room for getting out of the weather and sitting and > eating lunch, showers, a few vending machines, a nurse’s first aid room, > and a (seasonal) cycle rental service. > > this sounds a lot like a motorway Service Area to me. > > I know the features are mappable by themselves, and that this kind of > purpose-built facility is rare, but they seem to exist. The feature is a > named and singular mappable object with multiple amenities offered. > > someone else asked this question through OSM questions. > > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/56838/bicycle- > rest-area-how-do-i-map-it > > his “rest area” is a picnic shelter. There are no real amenities offered > there beyond the shade and a bench. I am not talking about a bicycle > parking spot with a drinking fountain. This is why I think > “bicycle_rest_area” should be avoided - as service area implies there are > actual “services" to the cyclist. > > This is a purpose-built facility along the route, catering to the > travellers and their vehicles along this route, similar to a > British/Japanese Parking Area/Service area. > > Saitama Prefecture (near Tokyo) operates two of these “Cycle Centers”, > with images viewable here. > http://www.pref.saitama.lg.jp/a1105/910-20091204-109.html#kihon > Additional searches lead to other prefectures operating 1 or 2, so I > assume there are about 20 in Japan, when you filter out all the cycle shops > using “cycle center” in the name. > I think we should have some way of tagging a cycle center that isn’t a > bike shop or a Park, even though it is rare. > > > Javbw > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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