[Tagging] bicycle=use_sidepath applicable to bicycle lanes?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:40:48 +0100
Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the two fast replies.
> n answer to my first question you both suggest to map a bicycle lane
> (which is separated from the main carriageway only by a white painted
> line) as a separate way. To me this seems not correct.

This is a misunderstanding. lane should not be mapped as a separate
way. Meaning of "bicycle=use_sidepath should be used only for cases
with separate highway=cycleway" is that bicycle=use_sidepath
should not be used in this situation, not that lane should be mapped as
separate highway=cycleway.

> We apply
> always the rule to map as separate ways only ways that are separated
> by some kind of physical separator (even though I do not know where
> that is explicitly stated  in the wiki). So I would not follow that
> approach. The only other alternative that springs to mind is the use
> of the lanes model (see the example in
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes)

Yes, that is how I map (including time-consuming merges of falsely
separated ways).