<div dir="ltr"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">On 3/09/2015 1:35 PM, Chris wrote:
><i> Hello, I am new to this group and have a question about pedestrian and
</i>><i> bicycle shared paths. I can't find anything in the archives.
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</i>><i> In NSW, shared paths fall into two broad categories:
</i><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">You're confusing highway= and bicycle=yes / bicycle=designated which relate to render hinting and the lawful uses with the physical infrastructure.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bicycle=yes can be on stairs. dirt. It is a lawful right to use, ie: the road related area extended from or towards a Shared Use Path sign, Sep Path sign, Cycleway sign (bicycle only), council reserve / park non-road related area (IANAL on that one) etc.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> (1) Sidewalk footpaths that have been designated as shared paths. In </i><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Tag the material features and let routing software figure it out</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">width=0.6 or width=0.8 or width=1 or width=1.2</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">smoothness=excellent; good; intermediate; bad</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">surface=concrete etc.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">maxspeed=50 ; 40 ; 10</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">maxspeed:advisory=10</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">maxspeed:practical=5;10;15</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">incline=up;down;15%;etc</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">traffic_calming=bollard;chicane</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">steps=yes</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ramp:bicycle=no</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I've noticed that people have a cultural habit of tagging highway=footway for paths narrower than 1.5m constructed as footpaths and later designated, whereas paths >=1.5m regardless tend to stay as highway=cycleway when tagged.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">thanks,
Sam.</pre></div>