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 |
Maybe use semi-colon as the accepted way to add multiple items to a tag and use The Bicycle tagging is mess, it's definitely worth using the wiki or mailing list to find common problems and some way of improving the schema without breaking current contributions. The wiki list some deviations for UK tagging away from the general cycle tagging, by convention it seems in the UK these shared pavements get mapped as a https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycling_in_the_United_Kingdom answered 07 Jul '20, 12:00 DevonshireBoy42 |
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?)