On 26/01/2016 8:23 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Hi all,
At present there is no documented standard for tagging highway shoulders.
We have http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shoulder with
shoulder=yes|no, which has been in 'draft (under way)' since 2010. In
Australia, cycleway=shoulder appears also to be used.
Taginfo stats are:
shoulder = * 7120, of which:
shoulder = no 3230
shoulder = yes 2743
shoulder = right 964
shoulder:width = * 1794
shoulder:right = * 1047
width:shoulder = * 843
cycleway = shoulder 502
There are several gazillion miles (approximate value) of roads with
shoulders around the world. We should have a way to tag them.
I'd therefore suggest simply formalising the most popular existing
usage and the one on the wiki page - that is, shoulder=yes|no. As a
default, I'd suggest shoulder=yes is presumed as the most common
real-world situation, i.e.:
"A paved shoulder, wide enough to be used as an emergency
refuge for cars, and for through passage by bicycles."
From my travels .. I'd say the most frequent (most miles) case is
shoulder=no.
Of course this could be made sensitive to the highway classification ..
motorways usually have a shoulder, driveways don't.
(Narrow shoulders can of course be tagged with shoulder:width, gravel
ones by shoulder:surface, and so on.)
There are of course many refinements one could imagine, for peak-hour
shoulder running, buses, etc. But since "the perfect is the enemy of
the good" etc., I'd like to get the basic shoulder=yes|no agreed first.
Speak now or forever hold your peace!
Good Luck.
cheers
Richard
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