Note, there is also bicycle=use_sidepath created for this purpose. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:bicycle%3Duse_sidepath
2014-12-22 14:50 GMT+01:00 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > On 22/12/2014 11:00 PM, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > >> >> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:53:53 +0100 >> From: Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> >> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" >> <tagging@openstreetmap.org> >> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Obligatory vs. >> optional cycletracks) >> Message-ID: >> <CAJKJX-QU=VPVyrGQgjb4xQZCQZmAugv-8FfbH9pYfz1_MTWV1Q@mail. >> gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> In Belgium the cyclist always have to use the cycleway, except >> >> - the path is in bad condition (glass, snow, holes, ...) >> - Children on small bikes >> - groups of cyclists. >> - for some special turns (see page 10 of >> http://webshop.bivv.be/frontend/files/products/pdf/ >> 2fea42ac8b1b22e59ef8d5ea77aaf906/fietsersendewegcode.pdf >> ) >> >> regards >> >> m >> >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> >> wrote: >> >> In NL I think it is similar to Germany. The definition of the sign is >>> "verplicht fietspad" i.e. compulsory cycle track. When the cycle track >>> runs >>> adjacent to a road the intention is clear, but the sign is interestingly >>> also used for cycle paths through the middle of the countryside with no >>> adjacent road. One might interpret this as "you MUST follow this path, >>> even >>> if it goes in the wrong direction for you".... >>> >>> >>> >>> Colin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> > I think the only need for 'obligatory cycleway' is to remove bicyclist > from certain roads! e.g. > > I'm bicycling north to south.. there is an obligatory cycleway 1000 kms > west of me .. > Do I have to use it? No. Totally unreasonable. > Or is it only obligatory for the adjacent road? Yes. In which case the > road can be tagged bicycle=no ... if I don't want to use that 'obligatory > cycleway' I could then find another road .. possibly further away, but I > could avoid both that road and that cycleway. Thus the 'obligatory > cycleway' applies to those bicyclists trying to use that one road. > > Same situation for the 'compulsory cycle track' if no other path exists > then you have to use it, if there are other paths then mark the other paths > as bicycle=no, as the situation demands. > > ----------------- > > Marc In some states of Australia I can bicycle on any footpath, in others > I can if I'm under 12 years old or accompanying that child. I don't tag > that, I'd not tag those complex exceptions in Belgium either. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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