[OSM-newbies] cycle map rendering

Dave F. davefox at madasafish.com
Sun Sep 13 15:26:28 BST 2009


Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 13:44 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
>   
>> Alex Mauer writes:
>>     
>>> As for the values, for a cycle-map I’d be inclined to not even highlight
>>> anything which has only bicycle=yes, because it would quickly overwhelm
>>> everything else – perhaps it’s different where you are, but around here
>>> all roads except motorways (and possibly a few others, specially signed)
>>> allow bicycles and would thus be bicycle=yes (or would be, if I would be
>>> bothered to fully tag every road like that).
>>>
>>> Beyond that there should be only bicycle=designated.  There is also
>>> bicycle=official, but perhaps that can be preprocessed into access=no +
>>> bicycle=designated before rendering begins?  The meanings are the same...
>>>       
>> I've been following along trying to understand the difference
>> between bicycle=designated and bicycle=yes.
>>     
>
> Is it a signed bike route (designated), or is it simply not closed to
> bikes (yes)?
>
>   
Do you have a wiki link to this?




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