[OSM-talk] Cycleways Was :Map Feature default |was: Re: Annotation presets]

[David Groom]

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From: "Tom Chance" <tom at acrewoods.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Feature default |was: Re: Annotation presets]


> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 00:58, matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk 
> wrote:
>> * I am assuming footpath = same as pavement. Possibly not, should be
>> checked.
>
> Surely not? Aren't all roads assumed to have pavements except motorways, 
> and
> those explicitly marked foot=no?
>
> I've always treated highway=footway as meaning footpaths, i.e. ways that 
> don't
> allow any kind of motor vehicle down them, and that aren't pedestrianised
> areas in town centres. I think of paths in the countryside and down the 
> side
> of rivers in towns. These, by default, allow bicycles and usually have 
> signs
> asking you to dismount if they don't.
>
> Incidentally, someone brought up cycle lanes. I've not yet come across a 
> road
> that is *just* a cycle lane. They usually also allow buses, taxis and
> motorbikes where I live, so I mark them as an ordinary road with car=no. 
> But
> how should we mark roads with one cycle+bus+etc. lane and one or more
> ordinary lanes?

Not sure what you mean by a "road" which is just cycle lane, but on the Isle 
of Wight there are at least three long distance (ie over 5 miles) routes 
which are designated cyleways (accessible for bikes and pedestruians, but 
not cars, buses, taxis etc).  One of these has a tarmac surface, the others 
loose chippings.  http://www.cyclewight.org.uk/cycling.htm

David

>
> Another conundrum I've not yet worked out is a single carriageway where 
> cars
> can only go one way, whilst buses+bikes+taxis can go both. Draw two ways? 
> Or
> invent a new tagging definition, like car=oneway?
>
> Reading town centre is too crazy for words. I never realised it on bike,
> because I can go just about anywhere. But trying to map well enough for 
> route
> planners it is requiring a lot of photos for reference, and messy roads 
> that
> produce terrible Osmarenders :/
>
> Regards,
> Tom