On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > There is one person in the US community - Paul Johnson a.k.a. baloo - who is > rather creative with his tagging. It seems to us that Paul has, in the past, > used the mere existence of a cycle route to tag neighboring residential > roads as "bicycle=destination" which probably stretches the meaning of the > concept, and might, if there is indeed a local law saying you must use cycle > routes, even be redundant. There is no such law in Oregon, despite Paul's claims to the contrary. The only such law is that if there's an adjacent facility (like a sidepath) you can't ride on the road right next to it.
> Recently, Paul has also started tagging some > highways as bicycle=avoid on the grounds of them being large and there not > being a cycleway - again something that other mappers might consider > unnecessary. Not unnecessary - incorrect. Sometimes a direct route without segregated facilities is better than an indirect route where motorists don't have to worry about your presence because you're off in the bike lane, or a rather winding trail. As an example, Paul would likely tag this road (University Boulevard) as bicycle=avoid: http://commuteorlando.com/bikebus/2010/09/23/ucf-bike-bus-still-riding-strong/ due to the presence of the Little Econ Trail a mile to the south: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.5855&lon=-81.2626&zoom=14&layers=M If bicycle=avoid were a valid tag, I'd use it on roads like this that have unsafe "bike facilities": http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2010/09/23/i-watched-a-guy-get-hit-yesterday/ Others would tag roads without bike lanes, and any router that uses the tag would get hopelessly confused. > While this might be considered slightly eccentric tagging by some, it can > hardly be considered harmful, and Paul seems to restrict this tagging to his > local area. In OSM, we're usually happy if someone cares for their area, and > we certainly allow them some liberties in shaping OSM for their area. Including tagging for his preferred political stance in the bike facility debate? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
