On Friday 28 March 2008, Andy Allan wrote: > I'd tag every one of those as highway=cycleway on a separate way, if > I had the time and the patience. If I was busy, I would see > cycleway=track as being a stop-gap, and someone else could model them > as separate ways when they had the time (in the same way that there's > nothing wrong with a parking node when you can't/don't want to draw > the area in full). > > If, however, someone came along and removed my separate ways and > added cycleway=track to the road I would be very cross!
I've started thinking along those lines as well now. Separate highways for cycleways could provide some more detail. But keep this "lower resolution" method for quick tagging, so it doesn't need gps tracks for each cycleway before one is able to say in OSM that the road has a cycleway. However, if cycle tracks are separate ways, then cycle lanes like http://www.info.groenbrussel.be/images/random/fietspad.jpg should be as well IMHO (since the painted cycleways can just as well have all the extra tags as cycle tracks, they could just as well cross the street, be oneway or not, etc). The talk about legislation in the UK in one of the earlier responses to one of my mails makes me wonder though if their cycle lanes are somewhat the same as our "fietssuggestiestroken" (bicycle suggestion strips) like http://www.maldegem.be/infokrant_april07/0205.jpg The rules on it are quite simple: there are no rules for it :-). The strip is just part of the road, only in a different colour, but that has no meaning in traffic law whatsoever. Cars are allowed to drive on them whereas the one in the picture above cars can only cross them, and it doesn't give cyclists right of way over other traffic, whereas the first kind does. Doesn't take away the fact that renderers have to be able to handle it though before it gives nice results, and that may be a lot of work as well for all I can see. I also wonder about the exact interaction with sidewalks. Cycle tracks are often embedded into the sidewalk like this for example http://www.bttb.be/beelden/astridplein.JPG which is basically two footways on each side of the cycleway. How would one put such a situation in OSM? Greetings Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
