[Tagging] bicycle=use_sidepath applicable to bicycle lanes?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:35:07 +0100
Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:

> B) In the case of a oneway road with one mandatory opposite-direction
> cycle lane (they do have the official cycle path signs in the
> direction opposite to the car flow - case L1a in
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle)?
> bicycle:backward=use_sidepath (or use_cyclelane or use_sidelane) plus
> bicycle:forward=yes (or bicycle:forward=share_carlane?)

Remember also about proper oneway:bicycle tag
(probably oneway:bicycle=no, though in some cases oneway:bicycle=-1 may
be necessary).

On main topic - I would use bicycle=use_sidepath as originally intended
- in cases where sidepath is mapped as separate way. For denoting
  mandatory/not mandatory bicycle lane it is probably necessary to
  invent a new tag - I remember some proposal to tag that
  highway=cycleway is mandatory and failed proposal for tagging soft
  bicycle lanes.