[talk-au] Australian Cycleways

[John Henderson]

Liz wrote:

> I've just put a lot of definitions on the wiki stolen from (and attributed to) 
> the Australian Road Rules
> concerning the various types of footpaths and bicycle paths and lanes
> 
> We have "Shared Path" to be tagged 'footway' with bicycle=yes
> 
> I'd like to suggest that a shared path has been designed for bicycle use with 
> regard to width, surface, gradient, visibility requirements
> and that tagging it as a 'cycleway' with foot=yes (exactly as a separated 
> path) would be of assistance to routing software, which could otherwise send a 
> cyclist down a road because the primary tag was 'footway'

I'm not sure I follow you in the last paragraph Liz.

Are you suggesting using:

	highway=cycleway

or

	cycleway=track

or something else?

I appreciate that it's a rendering issue, but one of the nice things
about highway=cycleway is that paths which are good for cycling stand
out immediately by virtue of the blue colouration.  Eg,

www.osm.org/?lat=-35.2079&lon=149.0834&zoom=13

(where some of us have been busy).

Of course, virtually all paths in the ACT are shared paths.

John