[OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] "Unsurfaced road" and "Byway"?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> What's the reason that the gravitystorm cycle map more or less ends at
> the borders of the UK ???
> There are no cycle routes outside of the UK? - probably not!
> There's no one interested in cycle routes outside of the UK? - probably not!
> The cycle route specific tags are so UK specific, that they won't fit
> well outside of the UK? - probably Bingo!

ncn = national cycle network
rcn = regional cycle network
lcn = local cycle network

That's not UK-specific: it's specific to a country with up to three  
tiers of cycle networks. Dutch mappers appear to be using the same  
tags happily (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Nl:Fietsroutes).  
It will also work in Denmark (http://tinyurl.com/33ld7u) - indeed, the  
UK system was actually based on the Danish one; in Lithuania  
(http://tinyurl.com/2nrafw); and so on.

It won't work in countries without a signposted cycle route system,  
but then, given that it's a set of tags for a signposted cycle route  
system, that's probably to be expected. ;)

The reason why the gravitystorm cycle map has more UK data than  
anywhere else is because there's a co-ordinated (and deeply enjoyable)  
effort among UK mappers to map our own cycle routes. Nothing more,  
nothing less. It'd be great if cycling OSMers in other countries with  
cycle networks did the same.

cheers
Richard