[OSM-newbies] Some questions on tagging for cycles

[john whelan]

This makes a lot of sense.  Splitting the physical from the legal
makes it much clearer.

Thank you

Cheerio John

On 13 September 2010 17:07, Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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
>
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