[Tagging] highway=cycleway vs highway=residential/service/etc.

[Mike Thompson]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:12 AM Grzegorz Szymaszek <gszymaszek at short.pl>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 10:32:39AM -0600, Mike Thompson wrote:
> > Two outer marked lanes for pedestrians, two inner lanes for cyclists.
>
> That is, are the pedestrian lanes separated from these parallel
> sidewalks: <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/963513064> and
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/229799328>? If not—if these outer
> lanes are those sidewalks—I’d use highway=cycleway and delete tags like
> cycleway=lane or {bicycle,foot}=designated.
>
They are separated by a curb (~15 cm high perhaps), and the fact that they
have different surfaces (concrete vs asphalt).

>
> > Road is physically suitable for motor vehicles, and was open to them at
> > some point in the past.
>
> I think <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpedestrian>
> may fit here, it is already used nearby:
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3080001>. Alternatively,
> consider
> <
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath#Usage_as_a_universal_tag
> >.
>
Thanks, I will look into those suggestions.

I think the road is used by security and maintenance motor vehicles (it is
on a university campus).

Mike
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