Hi. I agree with Ian.
Routing sites should be able to connect up disconnected SUPs in a sensible manner. As an aside, it would be nice if sites like Bikely supported OSM as a background. - Ben. On Apr 23, 2012 9:07 AM, "Ian Sergeant" <[email protected]> wrote: > I can see your argument, and no doubt having useful cycle routes available > is a good thing. > > However, I don't think personal ad-hoc cycle routes should be added to > OSM. It is a slippery slope, and OSM can't accommodation everyone's ideal > connecting route. > > Instead, I'd add the information (speed limits, road widths, residential > nature, cycle facilities (lanes, etc)) that would allow a typical cycle > router to be able to identify the connecting route between the two > cycleways. > > Personally, I think long term this is a better way to go anyway. Some of > the official cycle routes (particularly in Sydney) have poor cycle > facilities, and in the case of the currently tagged Concord to CBD cycleway > IMO is downright deadly. So many people have different opinions on what > makes a good cycle route for them, lets identify the features and get them > all into OSM, and then lets optimise the software to find the best way. > > There are lots of services to map personal favourite rides (bikely, > mapmyride, etc). > > Ian. > > On 22 April 2012 22:09, Lachlan Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've recently moved back to Lake Macquarie after some years in Canberra, >> and I'm delighted to find that there are more cycle paths around the >> central coast and Lake Macquarie than I was previously aware of. >> Unfortunately many of them are either incomplete or disconnected from each >> other. >> >> I am wanting to scout out optimal on-road routes to connect cycle paths >> into excellent recreational routes. For instance the recently opened >> Fernleigh (Rail trail) Track ends in Belmont, and just a few kms away there >> is a great path around Green Point. I want to tag a route (probably as >> "lcn") through the streets of Belmont so that viewers can see how best to >> join these rides together. To my knowledge there is no official >> council-endorsed cycle route. >> >> I recognise some people may have a philosophical aversion to this, >> because it is tagging based on usefulness rather than on what is "actually >> on the ground". I feel, however, that we have an opportunity to scout out >> optimal connections and start using them for cycling now, while we lobby >> councils to make such routes "official". I would choose a tagging scheme >> along the lines of "network=lcn" with "status=unofficial" or something so >> that these routes could be located by a search algorithm if needed. >> >> I've spent a while looking around the web, and there are no decent >> cycling maps of the region to be found. OSM and OpenCycleMap would be a >> superb resource if we took the liberty of tagging "desired routes" such as >> I have outlined. >> >> How do you feel about this suggestion? >> >> - Lachlan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > >
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