<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Just an FYI really: I'm in Britain, and I cycle, and have never heard of the term "sharrow" before today (I'm banking it with my other new word I learnt today: hexalobular!) - looking at the photo of a sharrow, I've also never seen one exactly like that anywhere in Britain before, but I obviously haven't studied every stretch of the country's roads!<br><br>Tim<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 19/8/11, Hillsman, Edward <i><hillsman@cutr.usf.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Hillsman, Edward <hillsman@cutr.usf.edu><br>Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sharrows (On-road markings for bicycle-automobile shared lane)<br>To: "talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org><br>Date: Friday, 19 August, 2011, 12:56<br><br><div id="yiv139736181"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="yiv139736181WordSection1"><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal">Not Canadian, but we have the same question here in Florida. I have been tagging stretches of road that have sharrows as</p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal">highway=*</p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal">cycleway=sharrows</p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal">We have one short stretch approaching a busy street where the sharrows are just for the southbound cyclist, and I have tagged that as</p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal">cycleway:right=sharrows</p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal">I’ve been doing things this way because it is consistent with cycleway=lane (we are indicating cycling infrastructure defined by paint on pavement). Unfortunately, it doesn’t show up on OpenCycleMap, but it will show up
when we download the data for producing our area’s next paper bicycle map. And, if there is a British English equivalent for “sharrows”, it will be easy to search and replace the tag values.</p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:green;" lang="NL-BE">Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:green;" lang="NL-BE"></span></b></p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:green;">Senior Research Associate</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:green;">Center for Urban Transportation Research</span><span style="color:navy;"></span></p><p class="yiv139736181MsoNormal"><span
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