[OSM-newbies] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

[Xan]

Al 29/07/10 13:51, En/na Daniel Tremblay ha escrit:
> Thank you Ramey and Xan for your interest.  I'll think about your 
> suggestions.
>
> Honestly Xan, I was thinking about something a lot more simple than 
> what you suggest.  Your suggestion goes far beyond my need and I 
> understand that, if we want to formalize something, we have to answer 
> as much needs as we can.
>

Sorry for the complexity. Others always think of different uses than you 
think ;-)

> If I come back to my little cyclist need, I wonder if I could simply 
> put cycleway=shoulder.  That would show that: there is a shoulder, it 
> is large enough to accomodate cycling, cycling is authorized on this 
> road, shoulder is not reserved for emergency, ...  With about the same 
> logic in mind, I could say cycleway=no_shoulder, meaning that that 
> road is often used by cyclists and the traffic is low enough for a 
> relatively safe sharing of the road between car and bicycle even if 
> there is pratically no shoulder (I have an example of that near my home).
>
Perhaps this

shoulder=yes
shoulder:access:cyclist=yes

(I follow the access wiki page syntax)
??

Thanks for receiving my ideas...


Do you have no a Proposed Tag page?

Regards,
Xan

> As I am suggesting adding values to the cycleway tag, I still believe 
> that the shoulder indicator would be usefull ...
>
> Let think a little bit more about this ...
>
>     Daniel, I'm insterested in that. If you formalize it, please,
>     alert me.
>     I think it could be useful:
>         - shoulder={yes,no}
>         - shoulder:width=5 m
>         - shoulder:side={left,right,both}
>         - shoulder:line={continuous, dashed,....} (see [1])
>         - shoulder:access = [all the access] (in some countries, the
>     shoulder is for emergency purposes, depending on highway
>     pedestrians and
>     biclycles could use it, in some countries it could be used for
>     buses..)
>
>
>
>
>
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