[Talk-us] tagging rumble-strip-separated road shoulders

[Richard Fairhurst]

voschix wrote:
> The shoulder=yes tag is being used a lot in combination with bicycle=yes

I think this is predominantly on rural interstates in the west, where bikes
are often permitted: here, bicycle=yes is needed to override the oft-assumed
default for highway=motorway. And there is, of course, a big difference
between cycling on an interstate with a shoulder vs one without! Certainly
I've added a lot of shoulder=yes tags to interstates in an effort to make
the US map more routable for bikes.

> If I have a stretch of motorway with a shoulder, this same stretch 
> is safer for bicycle use when a rumble strip is present than when 
> it is not, because it reduces the risk of a motor vehicle invading 
> the shoulder.

The fine people at the ACA are quite exercised about rumble strips:
https://www.adventurecycling.org/bicycle-tourism/national-advocacy-projects/rumble-strips/

If we do start tagging rumble strips, I agree that some differentiation is
needed between "rumble strips covering the whole shoulder" and "rumble
strips leaving enough space to cycle". Maybe shoulder:rumble_strips=full and
shoulder:rumble_strips=partial?

cheers
Richard



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