[Tagging] cycleway Tagging and Wiki-Page

[Balgofil]

Hi,

in the German Forum [1] we had a discussion about cycle lanes (with a
lot of off-topic talk). In Germany there are two different kind of
bicycle lanes:

1. "Radfahrstreifen": cycle lanes which are mandatory indicated by a
sign and a solid lane (cycleway=lane)

 2. "Schutzstreifen" cycle lanes with dashed lines not so wide as a
 "Radfahrstreifen" and therefore only advisory and no sign (cycleway=?)

So one solution that was pointed out in the thread is to tag the
"Schutzstreifen" with cycleway=shared_lane because of the description
in the wiki. I then pointed out, that in the UK there is a similar
situation, but no solution to it (see [2] Limitations). But I don't
know what is meant with cycleway=shared_lane. So can someone specify
what is meant by this tag?

My solution would be to tag a "Radfahrstreifen" with cycleway=lane AND
cycleway:bicycle=designated and a "Schutzstreifen" with cycleway=lane
AND cycleway:bicycle=designated. But this will break
backward-compatibility.

In the wiki there is also a tag for sharrows. But the description
starts with "As shared_lane, ...". Does that mean that sharrows are
tagged with cycleway=shared_lane, or is cycleway=sharrow the tag
describing the markings on the road?


Best regards,

Balgofil 
 


[1] = http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=19585
[2] = http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycleway