[talk-au] Local bicycle routes in NSW

[Tom Brennan]

Willoughby Council (Sydney, NSW) has recently been refreshing its cycle 
route signage, so I've been riding the routes and reviewing tagging in 
OSM. Before I go and make a whole lot of changes, I just wanted to 
confirm best practice.

1. Infrastructure:
Painted road markings (but no cycle lane) and/or street signs indicating 
cycle route:
cycleway=shared_lane
eg 
https://ozultimate.com/temp/2020-04-24%2022_01_11-NSW%20Bushwalking%20Maps.png

Painted cycle lane:
cycleway=lane
https://ozultimate.com/temp/2020-04-24%2022_03_56-NSW%20Bushwalking%20Maps.png

This seems to be my interpretation of:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway
and
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines


2. Cycle Routes:
Use of network=lcn vs lcn=yes - I assume network=lcn is preferred to 
lcn=yes? Quite a lot of the current routes have lcn=yes.

Alternatively, should I be trying to create relations? The problem with 
relations is that the cycleways all interconnect. So while there may be 
a sensible route from any suburb in Willoughby to any other suburb, but 
it doesn't seem to lend itself to a collection of relations. Certainly 
the signage at any given spot just points you to the next suburb.

The link below shows the approximate network (not all are yet 
built/marked - I'll be updating OSM on the basis of ground surveys)
http://edocs.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/DocumentViewer.ashx?dsi=2914874
I don't see that it easily lends itself to relations.


cheers
Tom
----
Canyoning? try http://ozultimate.com/canyoning
Bushwalking? try http://bushwalkingnsw.com