[OSM-talk] highway=cycleway or highway=path

[john whelan]

Locally they dump snow on them in winter.  At minus thirty for some reason
we don't get many cyclists probably because of the snow banks on the paved
shoulder.  A cycle lane by the side of the road is different, they get
ploughed in winter and even at minus thirty you see a few cyclists, I think
its 4% of the summer numbers.

Local conditions vary, as a cyclist you want to know if the shoulder is
paved its safer especially in the summer and they are paved specifically for
cyclist but sort of seasonal.

Cheerio John

On 22 June 2011 18:41, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> Am 23.06.2011 00:31, schrieb john whelan:
>
>
>> For Ottawa we had a problem with paved shoulders, you need them for a good
>> cycle-map but they don't seem to have them in Europe.  We also have multiuse
>> paths which tagged with all sorts of things.
>>
> Nearly all motorways in Europe (that's a bit of a blanket statement) have
> paved shoulders, but (another blanket statement) since motorways are a big
> no no* for bicycles, they are not relevant for bicycle routing.
>
> Simon
>
> * and that is very very sensible
>
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