[Potlatch-dev] What do the new cycleway values mean?

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aargh, what a lot of confusion. The cycleway=shared|segregated is an
> option for standalone ways (either highway=cycleway or highway=path)
> to indicate whether the bikes and pedestrians share the same tarmac.
> In the UK there are two white-on-blue street signs - one with a man
> and a bike beside one another with a white line between them (i.e.
> segregated) and one with the man above the bike and no dividing line
> (i.e. shared). There is a third sign (cycling only) but that can be
> expressed by bicycle=yes foot=no etc.

I've implemented this here:

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25365

I think it's a pretty good tagging scheme actually. The only thing it
doesn't really cover is priorities (eg, paths where pedestrians have
right of way), and situations with more than just bikes and
pedestrians (notably, horses).

Steve