[Talk-GB] Tagging rules for cycling in pedestrian areas and beyond

Harvey Blundell Harvey.Blundell at leicester.gov.uk
Tue Nov 9 15:27:36 UTC 2021


Hello there,

I'm new to the community, but happy to meet you all and be involved in the project.

I am a Transport Development Officer for Leicester City Council and we are working with an external provider to create a route planner for Leicester, highlighting safe cycleways and walking routes in the city.

We are trying to work out a sustainable ruleset for their journey planner technology and though it best to consult with the community to see what you think before making changes to the map in the area.

They are an international contractor but I want their ruleset to be correct for the UK so we can make and manage changes to the OSM map correctly.

They have shared with me their route planning criteria:

  1.  Default cycle-frienliness based on the highway type<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway> (highway=* tag). Friendly values are:

     *   highway=living_street and highway=rest_area

     *   highway types that allow cycling (and possibly walking) but not motor-vehicles. Default values are highway=path and highway=cycleway, although this actually depends on the region and country since access restrictions may differ among them.

  2.  Sidewalks<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:footway%3Dsidewalk> (footway=sidewalk) are not friendly.

  3.  Roads with cycle-lanes<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway> (cycleway=* tag) are friendly.

  4.  Roads forming official cycling networks are friendly (icn/ncn/rcn/lcn=* tags and also official cycling networks mapped as OSM relations).

  5.  Sections marked with bicycle=designated are friendly (even if it is, for instance, a road without lanes).

  6.  Bicycle roads<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bicycle_road> (bicycle_road=yes) and cycle streets<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cyclestreet> (cyclestreet=yes) are friendly.

I'm not sure this is consistent with UK labelling conventions and we have run into problems as a result. If anyone has any recommended changes to this, I would be happy to hear your suggestions.

Regards,




Harvey Blundell

Transport Development Officer

Active Travel Team - Neighbourhoods

Transport Strategy

Planning, Development and Transportation

Leicester City Council

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