[talk-au] Local bicycle routes in NSW
Tom Brennan
website at ozultimate.com
Fri Apr 24 22:55:44 UTC 2020
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
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