You can drive on some cycle lanes (and walk on some cycle tracks), so I wouldn't advise using exclusivity as a defining criterion for using the cycleway tag myself. But so long as your tagging is clear, it doesn't really matter.
Richard On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Daniel Tremblay <tremb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
