[OSM-newbies] Some questions on tagging for cycles

[Craig Wallace]

On 11/09/2010 14:06, john whelan wrote:
> In Canada we have cycle lanes, they are easy to tag but in Ottawa we
> also have paved shoulders that get used by cyclists in summer and the
> snow is piled up on them for winter.  How should a paved shoulder be
> tagged?  I'm thinking more to be accessible to routing systems as well
> as being rendered.

There is a proposal here for tagging shoulders (also see the discussion 
page): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shoulder

So in your case, you could tag it something like shoulder:surface=paved 
+ shoulder:access:bicycle=yes