[Talk-GB] UK Tagging Guideline - wiki page proposals
Bogus Zaba
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Sat Apr 28 09:47:19 BST 2012
On 21/04/12 00:13, Andy wrote:
> Just a couple of quick notes:
>
> * The cycle path section is a bit misleading as it stands. The tagging
> you have shown is for standalone paths (i.e. mapped separately from a
> road); the majority of cycle paths in the UK are on the side of a road
> and thus should be tagged something like
> "highway=<primary,secondary...>, cycleway=track, segregated=yes/no".
> I've copied the relevant section onto my user page and altered it:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Spark
>
> * I would prefer to see the 'UK Classic vs Global' stuff taken out -
> these are the *UK* guidelines and hence the best/commonest practice in
> the UK should be given.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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I should have read these tagging guides before. I have tried to map
local cycle paths along the side of the road by creating a way parallel
to the road and tagging it as a highway=cycleway. Do I understand from
the above that it is better practice to simply add a cycleway=track tag
to the main highway?
My excuse for doing it via a separate way is that I was copying somebody
else's practice and I could see that his way of doing it resulted in
nice rendering on the Cycle Map which can be accessed from the main map
page.
Bogus Zaba
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