[Tagging] cycleway Tagging and Wiki-Page

[Paul Johnson]

A sharrow indicates a shared_lane (one of two markings in use in the US;
the other being a bicycle symbol by itself with no chevrons, usually
accompanied by the "share the road" advisory signs; this may be Oklahoma
specific usage as Oklahoma doesn't use sharrows, however).


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Balgofil <Balgofil at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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