Haha, I only mean well :-)
The issue came about from trying to improve the guidance provided on the UK
tagging guidelines. Currently I have copied over the guidance that already
existed (to the consultation page), however this was very limited and has
already had cries that foot=no is not correct.
Now I can easily improve this section to draw a distinction about
cycleway=lane when the cycle path is _within_ the carriageway (with some
images). However there are 2 methods for cycle tracks alongside a road but
not within the carriageway. Question to talk-gb is do we in the UK have a
preference? If not then we need to discuss this on the wiki page and stress
that "just map it" regardless of non-consensus.
Note: One thought on left / right is that mappers have to realise that a
road has a direction (as it is drawn as an "arrow"). From my conversations
with new mappers this (and the similar Forward/Backward) is not understood
as we tend to think in terms of northbound / southbound / east / west.
Cheers,
Rob
ps For transparency I am currently thinking that the highway=* &
cycleway=track combination is a good start but we should be aiming to map
the cycle track as separate from the highway using a highway=cycleway (or
path) way.
On , Richard Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
Gosh, you are a glutton for punishment.
cycleway=track is used extensively in some countries
highway=cycleway is use extensively in some countries
cycleway=track was only rendered on OCM relatively recently
cycleway:left|right=track|lane isn't rendered on OCM
the Danes had a big argument about which to use and settled on
cycleway=track, despite it not being rendered on OCM
cycleway=track gives you more control over the rendering
highway=cycleway is easier to route, though unpacking cycleway=track
isn't difficult
sub-tagging of cycleways is difficult (eg their membership of a route
relation) if you use cycleway=track
In essence it comes down to the problem that recombining two parallel
ways in order to render them neatly is next-to-impossible. Whereas
putting the tags on a single way loses some micro-geography.
I'd go for cycleway=track, but I'm not prepared to go round deleting
highway=cycleway, and thus having lots of stuff disappear in OCM. So
until OCM can render cycleway:left|right properly, we're probably stuck
with both.
Richard
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