[Tagging] documenting cycleway=crossing
John Willis
johnw at mac.com
Tue Apr 16 06:21:18 UTC 2019
> highway=cycleway cycleway=crossing
I have been mapping more and more cycleways here in Japan, and there is a true need for cycleway=crossing.
Unlike some other countries where the cycleway is more akin to a road, cycleways here in Japan are often treated like footpaths, and dead-end into sidewalks and use pedestrian crosswalks for crossing roads. I have no problem using relation links to incluse non-cycleway ways into a larger cyclepath replation, but often times a cyclepath crosses a road and there is heavily painted markings, such as a zebra crossing.
there are ~12,000 uses of cycleway=crossing on ways according to taginfo, but no documentation for the tag.
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/cycleway=crossing <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/cycleway=crossing>
I understand that in some places the mental model of using a crossing for something that feels like a “road” is absurd, but for paths that are forced to use crosswalks and various pedestrian traffic control features, we need to document and codify the cycleway=crossing tag. when you use a zebra crossing to cross a road, not marking that as a “crossing” of some type feels wrong.
Javbw
> On Jan 27, 2019, at 2:15 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 26. Jan 2019, at 15:17, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The fact that the road is crossed by is crossed by a cycleway is already defined by the "highway" tags' values of the two crossing highways.
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> +1, I would go with highway=crossing and crossing=type of crossing, on the crossing node and highway=cycleway cycleway=crossing on the crossing part of the cycleway (way)
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> Cheers, Martin
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