[Tagging] Shoulder and traffic indicator tags

[Daniel Tremblay]

Regarding my cycleway=no_shoulder suggestion, here are a couple of example
we see often in Quebec, where car and bicycle share the road without
shoulders :

http://pistescyclables.ca/Evaluation/Signalisation/101_0706NotreDamedeMontauban.jpg
http://pistescyclables.ca/Evaluation/Signalisation/101_0709.jpg

Maybe these example should be coded as cycleway=designated ?

> 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).
>
> I don't like that one.  Traffic should be a separate tag.  Along with
> speed limit and number of lanes, that should be enough info for the
> routers/renderers to make a reasonable decision (preferably with the
> input of the end user).  The problem with the subjective
> cycleway=no_shoulder is simply that "relatively safe" differs from
> person to person, and even from trip to trip.
>






Daniel

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