[talk-au] Bicycle access tags in Victoria and other edits edits

[Andrew Harvey]

OSM never really had a good tag for truly shared foot/cycle paths, so it's
been long standing practice to use highway=cycleway + foot=designated +
bicycle=designated + segregated=no for shared paths. So by adding the
foot=designated and segregated=no tags they change highway=cycleway from a
bicycle only path to a true shared path.

On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 07:29, Sebastian Azagra Flores via Talk-au <
talk-au at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Using the tag the tag highway = cycleway indicates that the route is
> designated for bicycles only.
> In Victoria, this is hardly the case as most paths are generally signed as
> shared paths. I’ve yet to come across a dedicated cycle path during my
> riding.
>
> regards,
>
> Sebastian
>
> On 17 May 2022, at 6:15 pm, Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/5/22 23:38, Kim Oldfield via Talk-au wrote:
>
> Can I please clarify "using highway=cycleway should only be used where
> there are signs allowing"?
>
> That is how I've always used it in urban areas.
>
>
> This would only apply in NSW/VIC. In other jurisdictions putting up signs
> has become pointless because you can ride anywhere. In Canberra almost none
> of the shared path system has explicit signage. I use cycleway to tag
> "primary" routes and footway for "secondary" routes.
>
> So this would be a cycleway:
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Bike_path_in_Dickson%2C_Canberra%2C_Australia.jpg/576px-Bike_path_in_Dickson%2C_Canberra%2C_Australia.jpg
>
> and this is a footway:
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Footpath_in_Hackett%2C_Canberra%2C_Australia.jpg/576px-Footpath_in_Hackett%2C_Canberra%2C_Australia.jpg
>
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