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

[Brian Prangle]

On 28 April 2012 11:03, Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'd only use cycleway=track if there's a track on both sides, otherwise I
> use cycleway:left=track or cycleway:right=track, as appropriate.
>
> I also add a highway=cycleway alongside, because some applications prefer
> one method, some the other, and there's little harm having both (in my
> view).
>

IMHO it's either a track on the main highway (cycleway=track) or a separate
track (highway=cycleway). If you put both in you're editing for the
renderer not editing what's on the ground .

>
> cycleway=track wasn't rendered on the cycle layer until fairly recently,
> and one-sided tracks _aren't_ rendered. So if you want them to show on the
> cycle layer, you need to create a separate highway=cycleway (or
> highway=footway|path+bicycle=yes|designated).
>
> Richard
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:47 AM, 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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