[OSM-newbies] cycle map rendering

[Paul Johnson]

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 15:26 +0100, Dave F. wrote:
> 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?

It's kind of the primary definition of the word "designated."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/designate

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