[Talk-us] Extra wide shoulders / travel lanes in NJ

Jack Burke burkejf3 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 04:03:40 UTC 2015


Wait, question:

Are these shoulder lanes under discussion *only* for bicycles, or for motor
vehicles as well?

--jack


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I have not seen the Shoulder or Lanes tags in wide use yet. I use the
> cycleway tags on the highway line way to denote bike lanes that are part of
> the road surface, as it seems your case is. (cycleway:right=lane). Though
> in this case it is arguable if the shoulder is a lane. What is certain is
> that most cyclists treat shoulders as such.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway
>
> I'm interested in routing and the Open Source Routing Map project. Cycle
> and ped routing is especially interesting to me as an athlete, and so I
> looked on the ORSM backend for clues on how they're handling shared lanes
> and such. Looks like one of these tagging combos will work:
> https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/blob/8f8bd05f83fa2ccc542c2c44761f548a1e8b7579/features/bicycle/cycleway.feature
>
> Elliott
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:15 PM Mike Dupont <
> jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> This road cr 546 (http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/566939) and
>> many others here in the area has extra wide  wide shoulders that
>> people use for walking or biking. How do you want to tag them as such
>> so that we can also use that for routing?
>>
>> Here is a table of the segments with lane information
>>
>> http://lawrencetwp.com/documents/planning/Route546BikewayBicycleCompatibilityMatrix.pdf
>>
>> I see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shoulder and
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes what are your thoughts on a
>> detailed tagging for this information.
>>
>>
>> thanks
>> mike
>>
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