I buy Dave's comment (see below). Forget about the cycleway and bicycle tags and lets develop a "shoulder" set of tag then (which was, in the first place, the subject of this discussion). Mostly informative and not taken into consideration within the opencyclemap project.
You know, after a third and fourth thoughts about this ... I can see if there is a shoulder on almost every road in my area simply by looking at Google Street View ... I guess one of the purpose of Openstreetmap is to not rely on Google or other mapping source but ... Daniel 2010/8/4 Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> > On 03/08/2010 14:18, Daniel Tremblay wrote: > >> Yes, I can bike on normal lane and I do it. I don't like however to find >> myself on a 90km/h road with no shoulders. This is the kind of situation I >> would like to avoid when preparing my trip. This is why the shoulder >> indicator would be usefull IMO. >> >> > A shoulder tag is fine, but it should be added as a sub tag of the main > highway=* such as shoulder=yes/no & shoulder_width=* etc. > > It should not be associated with bicycle=* or cycleway=*. If it's a > shoulder then vehicles can enter it. > > If there's a lane at the side of the road designated for bikes then it's > not a shoulder. > > Take a look at this for relevant examples: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle#Cycle_lanes_and_bus.2Ftaxi_lanes > > Cheers > Dave F. >
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