<div dir="ltr"><div><div>"cycleway=track"<br><br></div>I propose to treat this tag as a special case of fixme - it indicates <br>some sort of cycleway parallel to road, without any additional details.<br><br></div><div>In theory it is possible to add tags that specify surface, side of road,<br>width by tags like cycleway:track:left:surface, but it is ridiculous.<br><br>Especially specifying geometry (where cycleway is) is<br>nearly impossible (and sometimes impossible in any sane way -<br></div><div>sometimes cycleway is next to road but distance changes).<br></div><div><br>These things are trivial for tagging as a separate way <br>(with highway=cycleway with normal set of tags). Especially <br>geometry is defined in a standard way, not by some ridiculous tags.<br><br></div><div>At least this is my experience from tagging cycleway <br></div><div>data in Kraków and using this data to render a map of bicycle <br></div><div>related infrastructure.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-12-22 23:49 GMT+01:00 fly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lowflight66@googlemail.com" target="_blank">lowflight66@googlemail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As we have tags for different kind of *lane the only problem is<br>
cycleway=track.<br>
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Now we have two solutions:<br>
<br>
1. deprecate cycleway=track in favour of cycleway=*_track<br>
2. add a new key like bicycle_track=*<br>
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My two cents<br>
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fly<br>
<br>
Am 22.12.2014 um 12:30 schrieb Hubert:<br>
> The need to distinguish between obligatory and optional cycle ways<br>
> isquite common. Right now it’s done by distinguishing between<br>
> bicycle=official/designated and bicycle=yes or bicycle=officialand<br>
> bicycle=designated/yes.<br>
><br>
> In a similar way, I think it is better to use something like<br>
> bicycle=obligatory instead of cycleway=optionalsince it is more of an<br>
> access problem, than a type problem.(I alsodon’tlike<br>
> cycleway=opposite)After all the only difference is where one may or must<br>
> ride. The cycle way itself does look the same, except for the missing sing.<br>
><br>
> OnMontag, 22. Dezember 2014 02:20Ulrich<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb">> Lamm<___ulamm.brem@t-online.de_<mailto:<a href="mailto:ulamm.brem@t-online.de">ulamm.brem@t-online.de</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi all,<br>
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>><br>
><br>
>> I've written a proposal for the tags cycleway=obligatory and<br>
><br>
>> cycleway=optional.<br>
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>><br>
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>> Now I hope for your comments.<br>
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