You have to make sure that the map you are looking at isn't under copyright before basing any OSM tagging on data referenced from the map.
James VE6SRV On 9/13/10, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > The city has a cycling map which shows six different markings for > cyclists. It's available both printed and on its web site. > > Blue - NCC which is federal has park land through which it has cycle > paths, these physically are marked with signs and a yellow line down > the centre. Cyclists must give way to pedestrians on these. > > Green - City Mixed-Use pathways, these are fascinating my local park > has one path so marked on the map but there are no signs in the park > other than a more general sign restricting the use of snow mobiles and > other powered vehicles. I have a query into the city to see if I can > get a better definition of which city pathways you are allowed to ride > your bike on. The local cyclists aren't much help, they ride on the > sidewalk even if there is a cycle lane. The city of Ottawa > amalgamated an number of cities and townships about five years ago and > they are still trying to sort out which by-law applies where. > > Red - Conventional cycle lanes by the side of the road most of which > are unploughed in winter so unusable. Lane markings and signed, > fairly easy to spot. > > Orange - paved shoulders, usually a white line separates this from the > road same as a cycle lane but no cycle lane sign. These I've decided > to tag as cycle lanes paved_shoulders=yes then they can be picked out > in JOSM should we decide to change the tag. > > Pink - Signed only bike routes these may or may not connect to a cycle > path or cycle lane. > > Dotted pink - unsigned recommended bike routes again these may or may > not connect to a cycle path or cycle lane. > > The city is moving to Opendata but the licensing needs to be amended > to make it strictly compatible with OSM. Most Blue paths are well > mapped as are the cycle lanes. The road network is in fairly good > shape ie where two roads meet they do so on the map as well so running > routing software should work nicely and its to assist the cycle > routing software that I'm after how to tag. > > Thanks John > > On 13 September 2010 11:46, Alex Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 09/11/2010 08:06 AM, john whelan wrote: >>> >>> The city also has some roads that are recommended for cyclists but not >>> signed, typically these connect roads with cycle lanes or dedicated >>> cycle paths. >> >> How do you know they are they recommended, if there’s no sign? Does the >> city have a brochure or map or something which publicises which routes are >> recommended? >> >> I would expect they should be bicycle=designated: The way is a >> preferred/designated route ... often marked by a traffic sign. >> >> Hope this helps >> >> -Alex Mauer “hawke” >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> newbies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >> > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
