[Talk-us] Bicycle facility tags (Class III "bike route")

[Alan Brown]

I've been working on something similar for San Jose ... I've been working on the seperate cycle tracks, but I'll eventually get to the roads.

Are there any server set up there rendering North American (or, at least, Bay Area) tiles similar to the OSM cycle map?

http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/

I'd also be curious - does mapnik have the ability to render partially transparent PNGS, to use as an overlay?





----- Original Message ----
From: will law <williumbillium at gmail.com>
To: Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com>
Cc: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:08:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle facility tags (Class III "bike route")


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, mike.onines at juno.com <mike.onines at juno.com> wrote:
Class I is the separated bike path, with a physical separation between the bicycle path and vehicle traffic, or on a route which other vehicle traffic doesn't follwo.  This one is easy, you trace in the path, and make it highway=cycleway; cycleway=track.  It's just the same as drawing in separate roads for divided roads.

Class II is the bike lane with its own lane markings, but it is immediately adjacent the vehicle lanes.  This also seems to be pretty clear: just add a cycleway=lane tag to the road it is part of, right?

Class III is a "shared use" facility with the cars, it just has the green "bicycle route" signs occasionally.  Hopefully it has a wide outside lane, but not always.  How do you put this one in?  do you add a bicycle=designated tag to the road, or what?


I have been classifying Class I & II cycleways in San Francisco using the above method.  I haven't got on to the Class III type but bicycle=designated seems appropriate to me. 

I think your suggestions line up with how I would tag it, too. I'm curious where you heard about the Class I, II, III designations, though. I'm a California native and occasional bike rider and I've never heard of these.

Karl

Here's the detail on their classification in California.  I'm not sure if the same is used elsewhere in the US though:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=shc&group=00001-01000&file=890-894.2

Will
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