[Tagging] Cycling infrastructure routes (was Re: cyclist profiles - was:Feature Proposal - RFC - value 'basic_network' - cycle_network?)

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Dec 7, 2021, 21:49 by voschix at gmail.com:

> A short clarification to avoid confusion.
> A cycleway in OSM speak is road for exclusive use by cyclists.
>
Not exactly. In at least some countries cycleways are not necessarily roads
and not necessarily only for cyclists.

Exemptions include

- forestry access
- pedestrian access with pedestrians required to give way to cyclists
- used also as a driveway to a some home
- used also as maintenance road of a park, flood barrier etc

For example as
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POL_Warszawa_DDR_na_Bia%C5%82o%C5%82%C4%99ce_01.jpg
has no sidewalk, pedestrians are also allowed to use it.

This also doubles as a service road for anti-flood embankment.

>
>  The cycle routes around here consist of continuous strings of roads of different types: cycleways, combined foot-cycle-ways, minor roads shared with motorised traffic, roads with painted cycle lanes, single track paved or unpaved agricultural roads, single track unpaved service roads along minor and major waterways (on top of the dykes that protect the lower laying land from flooding), pedestrian areas in towns (which by default are open to cyclists),  short stretches of footways (where you are expected to dismount, many zebra crossings, bus lanes in many cities, ecc.
> Cycle routes are not made exlusively of cycleways.
>
+1
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