[Talk-GB] UK Tagging Guideline - wiki page proposals

[Andy]

In my opinion, the cycleway=track method is much better - it's easier to
map, gives a cleaner and more accurate rendering, and is more
representative of what's on the ground. Routing works much better this way
too.

I would use a separate way and highway=cycleway when the cycle path is any
significant distance away from the edge of the road.

Cheers,
Andy
On Apr 28, 2012 9:44 a.m., "Bogus Zaba" <bogsub at bogzab.plus.com> wrote:

> 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<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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