[Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

[Richard Mann]

I'll include opposite_lane; there are enough of them.

I'd probably tag the one by the Jeremy Bentham as cycleway:right=track (and
indeed that is how it is tagged). You can determine its unconventional
usage from the oneway tag(s), if you so wish.

I'd guess most of the cycleway=opposite_lane tags are situations where
there's a contraflow lane in a one-way street. I'd probably tag that as
cycleway:right=lane (+oneway:bicycle=no) myself, since otherwise you're
prevented from specifying what's happening in the forward direction. But
clearly cycleway=opposite_lane is still being used.

Richard

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 October 2012 17:34, Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
> > Gregory,
> >
> > I thought that cycleway=opposite_lane was the equivalent of
> > cycleway:right=lane.
>
> no - opposite_lane is useful in a one-way road to indicate cyclists
> can go both ways. There's nothing in cycleway:right=lane to suggest
> whether or not that cycle lane is with or against the traffic flow on
> a one-way road. Outside the Jeremy Bentham is a one-way cycle lane in
> the same direction as cars on the right hand side of a one way road,
> for example.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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