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

[Volker Schmidt]

Have a look at the highway=cycleway wiki page. That is my reference.

On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, 19:41 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging, <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Dec 7, 2021, 21:49 by voschix at gmail.com:
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> A short clarification to avoid confusion.
> A cycleway in OSM speak is road for exclusive use by cyclists.
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> Not exactly. In at least some countries cycleways are not necessarily roads
> and not necessarily only for cyclists.
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> Exemptions include
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> - 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
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> For example as
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> 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.
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> This also doubles as a service road for anti-flood embankment.
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> 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.
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> +1
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