[Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

[James]

There's also documentation that Ottawa is using(not final thats why its not
on the wiki) with example pictures:

https://github.com/osmottawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide/blob/master/README.md

There are differences with respect to US bike pathes


On Jan 23, 2018 4:10 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I share your desire to not duplicate stuff that is already done. There is
> a strong attempt in the Ottawa community to use standard OSM tags
> highway:cycleway, cycleway:lane/track and bicycle:*etc..
>
> The bicycle router is very nice (cycle.travel). However, I think an
> Ottawa bike routing algorithm will require modifications to work in Ottawa
> where we need to tag routes as being maintained in the winter (or not) and
> then allowing you to choose if you want a winter-maintained route or not.
>
> Also would like to see more options to avoid roads and only travel on
> paths that are lit.
>
> For example, I just plugged in FROM/TO where I might go, and the route
> chosen is the most direct, but not the one I would take because it goes on
> a very busy section of road with traffic at 100km/hour with no shoulder.
> ... I would take the longer path. It also picks paths that are not cyclable
> at this time of year.
>
> Matthew Darwin
> matthew at mdarwin.ca
> http://www.mdarwin.ca
>
> On 2018-01-23 03:25 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
>
>> Oops, the bicycle router I wanted to refer to in my previous is
>> http://cycle.travel by Richard Fairhurst (whom I inexplicably confused
>> with Simon Poole).
>>
>> SteveA
>> California
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