[OSM-talk] on-road cycle routes

[Håkon Enger]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Mike Collinson wrote:

> When mapping combined cycle/footway in Australia I started doing the 
> opposite (highway=cycleway, foot=yes, cycleway=track) and still do.

Not entirely on topic, but I don't understand the purpose of using 
cycleway=track together with highway=cycleway. I have seen that Potlatch 
uses this as a default, but I thought that cycleway=track meant that there 
is a separate track of cycleway along the main road (as opposed to, say, 
cycleway=lane, which is a lane in the road) and so should be used with 
other highways. I don't see how cycleway=track adds any information to 
highway=cycleway, so it seems superfluous. Can somebody explain to me the 
rationale for this combination of tags?

   Håkon