<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>May 7, 2022, 21:31 by <a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com" target="_blank">voschix@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div>I just noticed that the "new" wiki page <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway:lane" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">key:cycleway:lane</a> (created
5 April 2018) describes a cycleway lanes tagging hat is different from the one on the main <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bicycle</a> wiki page.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The difference regards the key "cycleway:lane" which is not mentioned in the "Bicycle" page.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Added in<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Bicycle&diff=2321334&oldid=2313512" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Bicycle&diff=2321334&oldid=2313512</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>thanks <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div>The problem is that in countries where mandatory (for bicycles) and non-mandatory cycle lanes exist, the tagging has become ambiguous with the introduction of <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway:lane" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">key:cycleway:lane</a> which is used to distinguish between the two.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Why it has caused it to become ambiguous?<br></div><div dir="auto">cycleway:lane allows to distinguish this cases<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am referring to Italy.</div><div>Up to about one year ago we had only one type of cycle lane. These were by law all "mandatory" in the sense that cyclists were obliged to use them, and motorized traffic was supposed not be present on them, not even for short stops. They are officilly called "pista ciclabile" (the same term that is used for separate, stand-alone cycleways). They were tagged in OSM as cycleway=lane or cycleway:left|right=lane, as the cycleway=mandatory tag did not yet exist. There are roughly 5.5k of these in OSM in Italy.</div><div>One year ago the government created new cycle lanes, also called cycle lanes in Italian. These correspond to the advisory lanes concpet in OSM (only painted on the road, only week mandatory use by cyclists, and cars con go on them, and even stop on them. So the need to be tagged differently from the original cycle lanes. As it is out of question that we can retag the older ones as mandatory in any automatic mode, we end up with an ambigous tagging.</div><div>I had pointed that out when the
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway:lane" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">key:cycleway:lane</a> was discussed.</div><div>Too late now, I suppose.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto"></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div>Also the new tag is missing in the JOSM cycle lane presets.<br></div><div>In iD there seem to be no cycle lane presets at all (?)<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">It may or may not be a good idea to request support for this or<br></div><div dir="auto">other tags on issue trackers of this editors.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If tagging conventions are not in presets and not properly documented in the wiki, they are relatively useless.</div><div>Cycling infrastructure tagging is already a mess with what is in the wiki, add to that the unfortunate cycleway:lane additions.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Note that this distinction is appearing only in some countries.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes the mess is limited to some countries. Italy is one of them, not helped by the odd legal definitions (most prominently that the very frequently used shared foot-cycle-ways are legally sidewalks, where bicycles are tolerated, but pedestrians have priority, and which are not msandatory for cyclists. But only a small percentsge of cyclists know that). And these shared foot-cycle-ways are not in the wiki, not in the preset of iD. They only are in JOSM. <br></div></div></div>