[OSM-newbies] Questions about adding cycling paths in Moscow

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Sun Sep 13 21:21:42 BST 2009


On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 10:30 -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
> On 09/11/2009 10:03 AM, Peter Childs wrote:
> >> 2. Why doesn't the existing way show up in OpenCycleMaps?  Part of the path
> >> that I'm working on (a road) was already created by someone else, and is
> >> already labeled as a "way (no preset" with a tags of "bicycle=yes, foot=yes,
> >> highway=pedestrian", but it doesn't show up on OpenCycleMaps.  I was under
> >> the impresseion that OpenCycleMaps would only show things specifically
> >> labeled as cycling paths.
> > 
> >  I think it may be tagged wrong, highway=path, or highway=footway.
> > look at the available values for a highway, and correct if necessary.
> > (See wiki)
> 
> Based on the description (shared-use path) it’s tagged right; just that
> opencyclemap doesn’t render those (as discussed in the other thread).
> But making it highway=cycleway just for the renderer is not right.

Path seems to imply something like a track in terms of a cycleway to
me... tagging a paved, urban cycleway as such, unless it's so heavily
trafficked as to be worthy of demotion as a route useless for utility
travel.
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