[OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 07.03.2011 11:30, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer:
> 2011/3/7 ant<antofosm at gmail.com>:
>   When turn restrictions are practically circumvented by
>> separate cycle tracks that are not mapped, their application for bicycle
>> routing is based on nothing
>
> It is a common mapping error to not map distinct cycle tracks with an
> own way and it is  the reason, why separate tracks should always be
> mapped separately: because they are separate ways and different turn
> restrictions, other restrictions, surface, width, etc. might apply.
Completely agree, but to go even further:
Same holds for sidewalks, too: different surface, different width, 
different restriction (in Germany no bicycles allowed unless signed 
otherwise), turn restrictions not as a legal issue, but sometimes as an 
issue of barriers (If I'm not able to cross due to dangerous traffic, 
due to high curbs and my wheelchair etc. I can not turn left from the 
right sidewalk, even if there is a street to the left).

regards
Peter