[OSM-talk] opencyclemap and car directions

arno arno at renevier.net
Wed Dec 2 14:34:02 GMT 2009


Le mercredi 02 décembre 2009, à 14:24:19 +0000, Andy a écrit : 
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:07 PM, arno <arno at renevier.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was told today by a bicycle commuter that openstreemap is "interesting but
> > unsuccessful" because "opencyclemap is wrong".
> >
> > His point was:
> > opencyclemap show the directions for cars but not for cyclists:
> > in his city, there are a lot of streets where car can only go one way, but
> > cyclists can go both.
> > These streets are correctly mapped (have the
> > cycleway=opposite_lane|opposite_track|opposite) but on cyclemap layer, are
> > still represented as oneway on opencyclemap.
> >
> > So, I explained the difference between data and its representation, and I
> > explained that that osm is not unsuccessful. But I also understand my
> > interlocutor point of view: opencyclemap is supposed to be a cyclist map, but
> > it shows directions for cars.
> >
> > So, I was wondering if you knew why this is the way it is ?
> 
> I've simply not implemented it yet! Someone gave me a new icon (a long
> time ago) that shows that it's a oneway road but that you can cycle in
> both directions, and I'm sorry to say that despite their efforts I
> haven't added the rules yet.
> 
> If you want to keep track of things, then please add a ticket to
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org with the opencyclemap component.

Thanks for your reply.
I've opened bug #2532 for that.

arno
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