[Talk-us] Signed shared roadway

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 15:23 -0600, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mapping bike lanes here in Salt Lake I get confused by the different
> types of bike lanes and how to map them. There's regular bike lanes,
> which I tag cycleway=lane, but then there's also "green shared
> lanes"[1] and "signed shared roadways"[2] which I'm not sure how to
> map. Is there a convention in place or do we just tag them all as
> cycleway=lane?

Shared lanes are the default kind of lane in the US.  If they're
explicitly signed, that would be bicycle=designated by definition.  If
there's an exclusive lane reserved for bicycles (ie, diamond lane style
signage/pavement markings), then it would be a cycleway=lane.