<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">highway=cycleway cycleway=crossing</blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have been mapping more and more cycleways here in Japan, and there is a true need for cycleway=crossing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unlike some other countries where the cycleway is more akin to a road, cycleways here in Japan are often treated like footpaths, and dead-end into sidewalks and use pedestrian crosswalks for crossing roads. I have no problem using relation links to incluse non-cycleway ways into a larger cyclepath replation, but often times a cyclepath crosses a road and there is heavily painted markings, such as a zebra crossing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">there are ~12,000 uses of cycleway=crossing on ways according to taginfo, but no documentation for the tag. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/cycleway=crossing" class="">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/cycleway=crossing</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I understand that in some places the mental model of using a crossing for something that feels like a “road” is absurd, but for paths that are forced to use crosswalks and various pedestrian traffic control features, we need to document and codify the cycleway=crossing tag. when you use a zebra crossing to cross a road, not marking that as a “crossing” of some type feels wrong. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 27, 2019, at 2:15 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" class="">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">sent from a phone<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 26. Jan 2019, at 15:17, Volker Schmidt <<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com" class="">voschix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">The fact that the road is crossed by is crossed by a cycleway is already defined by the "highway" tags' values of the two crossing highways.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">+1, I would go with highway=crossing and crossing=type of crossing, on the crossing node and highway=cycleway cycleway=crossing on the crossing part of the cycleway (way)<br class=""><br class="">Cheers, Martin <br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tagging mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org" class="">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>