I was out and about last night in Ottawa and saw some sharrow markings on Somerset in Chinatown. Sharrow is a new-to-me word, too.
--G On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:41 AM, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > In Ottawa we have paved shoulders which show up on the city's cycle maps as > recommended. You can tag them but the normal rendering doesn't really show > them on a cycle map. I set something up using Maperitive > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WkJzx5NffRv0TIQgCFFGTQzyqbQ9XDphSLqcjuM8wGM/edit?hl=en_USbut > I agree there isn't really a consistant way that things are handled in > OSM for cycle paths etc. > > Cheerio John > > On 19 August 2011 00:06, Darren Ewaniuk <[email protected]>wrote: > >> This summer, the city of Edmonton is marking some streets to designate >> bicycle use on them. >> >> On portions of these streets that are wider, they have one driving lane in >> each direction and are painting the outside lanes off and designating them >> bicycle lanes (hence one automobile lane and one bicycle lane in each >> direction). >> These appear to be straightforward, and I am marking these as: >> cycleway=lane >> bicycle=designated >> lanes=2 >> >> On other portions of these streets which are either narrower or require >> turning lanes onto a more arterial road, or on smaller streets, they are >> putting up "Share the road" signs and are painting a sharrow on one lane in >> each direction to indicate that the marked lanes are shared >> automobile/bicycle. >> >> What's a Sharrow - http://bikehugger.com/post/view/whats-a-sharrow >> >> I can't seem to find a consistent convention for tagging sharrows in OSM. >> >> Some information indicates just to mark that this street is designated for >> bicycles: >> bicycle=designated >> But this doesn't really indicate that the road is explicitly marked and >> intended as a route for bicycles, since by default bicycles are allowed on >> all streets. >> Hence routing software will not likely prioritize these streets when >> planning a bicycle route. >> >> Other messages indicate to be specific and tag the street with sharrow=yes >> to explicitly specify there is on road markings for a shared bicycle lane: >> bicycle=designated >> cycleway=no >> sharrow=yes >> >> And yet other messages indicate that not all shared roads or all countries >> have painted sharrows and that the shared lane be marked as >> cycleway=shared_lane >> bicycle=designated >> cycleway=shared_lane >> >> What have other Canadian OSMers been using? >> >> For my changes so far, I have used the "sharrow=yes" tag. >> >> An example is 97 Street NW around 63 Avenue NW: >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.49945&lon=-113.48005&zoom=17&layers=M >> >> 97th Street NW North of 63 Ave has sharrows >> 97th Street NW from 62 to 63 Ave is tagged as having 2 lanes each >> direction with Sharrows >> (In reality, northbound is 2 lanes with sharrows, southbound is 1 lane >> traffic + separate bicycle lane, but short of splitting this in two ways >> there is no way to tag this) >> 97th Street NW South of 62 avenue has separate bike lanes (1 traffic lane >> + 1 bicycle lane southbound, 1 traffic lane + 1 bicycle lane northbound) >> >> What tagging convention should be used here? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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