<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, <a href="mailto:mike.onines@juno.com">mike.onines@juno.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.onines@juno.com">mike.onines@juno.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">How do we mark and tag Class II and Class III bike facilities? (I'm not sure if Class I, II, and III is a California specific designation, or if this is the standard terminology throughout the US)<br>
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Class I is the separated bike path, with a physical separation between the bicycle path and vehicle traffic, or on a route which other vehicle traffic doesn't follwo. This one is easy, you trace in the path, and make it highway=cycleway; cycleway=track. It's just the same as drawing in separate roads for divided roads.<br>
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Class II is the bike lane with its own lane markings, but it is immediately adjacent the vehicle lanes. This also seems to be pretty clear: just add a cycleway=lane tag to the road it is part of, right?<br>
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Class III is a "shared use" facility with the cars, it just has the green "bicycle route" signs occasionally. Hopefully it has a wide outside lane, but not always. How do you put this one in? do you add a bicycle=designated tag to the road, or what?<br>
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Thanks for the input,<br>
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-Mike<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Mike,<br><br>I think your suggestions line up with how I would tag it, too. I'm curious where you heard about the Class I, II, III designations, though. I'm a California native and occasional bike rider and I've never heard of these. And I'm not sure I've ever seen a Class I cycleway--any separated paths always seem to be shared with pedestrian & other non-vehicle traffic (I would tag the ones I've seen as highway=path, bicycle=designated, foot=designated, etc.). Actually, now that I think about it, the west side of the Golden Gate Bridge might qualify as a "pure" cycleway (it's supposed to be for bicycles only).<br>
<br>Karl<br></div>