I'm trying to add some detailed mapping along a cycle route (the N72 in Newcastle,UK). This route is largely along peaceful designated bike/hiking paths that are away from the busy roads, but in some areas it briefly travels along the pavement/sidewalk by the side of a road. Ideally I'd like to capture this detail in the tagging, preferably in a way that is useful to the various cycle maps. I've had a go at this section from William Armstrong Drive and along Scotswood Road, which I have currently tagged as follows: Normal Cycle PathThe section along the waterfront, away from the road, is simply tagged as most cycle paths are:
Along the Pavement/SidewalkAs the route comes up on the pavement alongside William Armstrong Drive and Scotswood Road I've tagged it as:
which seems to be about as explicit as I can be. Crossing the RoadI've also tagged the section where the route crosses the road as:
and drawn that through the So does this approach make any sense? Logically it seems okay to me, but I'm a bit worried about how it will be interpreted and rendered by existing apps. (Yes I know we should be renderer-agnostic, but I don't want to break a route that used to work correctly). Incidentally I can't just add a asked 15 Jul '11, 09:56 GrahamS |
This is a common problem. I think the consensus is that there is no ideal solution at present, but for those seeking help, rather than discussion, the best compromise is to use a separate way, as you describe. Make sure it is joined to the main way at junctions to aid routing. answered 15 Jul '11, 23:49 Peter reed |
Nowadays, for "along the sidewalk", there is the segregated tag.
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answered 08 Feb '14, 20:07 jgpacker |
An alternative way is to have the bike path way merge into the road, then use something like "highway=residential, cycleway=track". answered 16 Jul '11, 15:56 Stevage Thanks Stevage, but as I said the road also has a bike lane, so it already has
(17 Jul '11, 22:45)
GrahamS
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This forum is not meant for discussion. So I am tempted to close this question. However, to give you a short answer I would like to point out that http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle covers most options were sidewalks and bicycle lanes meet. answered 15 Jul '11, 12:44 ALE I cited that page in the question, but there are problems with the tagging it suggests in this situation. Ref S3 is the closest match, but I can't add
(15 Jul '11, 14:42)
GrahamS
As I said before: this is a help forum and not a forum for discussion. Please use the wiki or the mailing list instead.
(15 Jul '11, 17:24)
ALE
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This is likely up for debate, so the wiki or the tagging@ mailing list is probably a better place to ask this.
Thanks @JoshD. I never find anything much gets resolved on the mailing lists :) and I thought if I got some good answers here it might help others in the future (after all how many newbies trawl through all the mailing list archives?)