[talk-au] Tags for bike-friendly streets.

[Vaidila Kungys]

Re-posted with correct subject line...

Thanks for your input. We're going to go with Richard's suggestion to
stick with the verifiable tags like maxspeed and traffic:hourly. We
would also support the use of the proposed shoulder tag
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shoulder), but obviously that
hasn't been approved by the community so if you'd like to hold off on
applying it, that's fine.

Here's the temporary URL for the Brisbane project, in case you want to
spread the word to get OSM bicyclists improving the data:
http://www.ridethecity.com/?region=brisbane

We're in the process of making some of these changes ourselves and
would welcome any and all assistance! Useful corrections would be:
- adding or correcting street and track/cycleway names
- adding bike facilities where needed/missing
- correcting highway types e.g. residential vs. primary, secondary, etc.
- specifying incline=* e.g. incline=9% or incline=-9% where there are
steep hills
- ensuring nodes connect highways to cycleways in the right places
(and that nodes don't exist where connections should not exist)
- correctly tagging highways and tracks with bicycle=no where bikes
aren't allowed (and where it's not obvious).

Our routing system does not refresh from OSM immediately. Initially
we'll refresh every few days and as it becomes more stable, we'll
probably refresh once a week.

Thanks,
Vaidila & Jordan
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