[Tagging] Tagging cycleways to distinguish them from combined cycle and footways

Jeroen Hoek mail at jeroenhoek.nl
Wed Aug 3 08:59:47 UTC 2022


> They must use either road's shoulder when they can instead of using
> either road's "way" (carriageway or cycleway), so if the choice
> hypothecially was only between the carriageway's shoulder and the
> cycleway, and the cycleway's shoulder for some reason was not a
> choice, the carriageway's shoulder is what the law says they must
> choose.

Have a look at this typical Dutch situation:

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1426041,5.7397237,3a,75y,228.33h,88.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAhezo74J5tsgo0u0mM-oNQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

On the right, a road, on the left, a compulsory cycleway. Dutch law says 
that pedestrians must use the cycleway here (and they may walk on its 
hard surface), and may not use the shoulder of the road because the 
(much safer) cycleway is there. So the road gets foot=use_sidepath, and 
the cycleway has no foot value (because the Dutch default access tags 
have foot=yes for highway=cycleway), or foot=yes.

So you are saying that in Norway, in a case like this, pedestrians can 
choose to use the shoulder of both the road and the cycleway?



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