[Talk-us] Bicycle Routes
How can I tag unofficial bicycle routes in my community? For example, the City of Stillwater has documented with actual signs on the road these routes (http://stillwater.org/document_center/Bike_Routes.pdf) I have tagged these as lcn=yes and named them all Stillwater Bicycle Routes in a relation. There is a bicycle club that has created other routes that do not have actual signage on the roads. see http://www.reddirtpedalers.org/local-routes For Club routes, I could tag them as reddirtpedalers routes (i.e. Reddirtpedalers Couch Park Loop) http://www.reddirtpedalers.org/local-routes/13-couch-park-loop For the Club routes: Should I use lcn=proposed? (this is not valid, because they are not being proposed and most of them are outside city limits. the county does not have any routes) Should I use lcn=unofficial? Should I use lcn=club? Should the name include unofficial OR bicycle = undesignated? Also, using Stava data, I can see other used roads that are not bicycle routes, but they are widely used. see http://labs.strava.com/routing-errors/#250/13/-97.06824/36.12651 Lakeview Road north west of Stillwater going out to Lake McMurtry is a nice blacktop road without a lot of traffic, If I was riding a bicycle, I would use this road. Should I tag these commonly used bicycle routes? I assume official = signage on the road. Mike Henson ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Bicycle Routes
It is common practice to only tag the ones with actual signs on the road. For all the other ones you mentioned you should instead add the physical characteristics that make them popular with cyclists (surface, lane count, width, shoulder, smoothness, incline, etc.). Harald. On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Mike Henson mikehen...@hotmail.com wrote: How can I tag unofficial bicycle routes in my community? For example, the City of Stillwater has documented with actual signs on the road these routes ( http://stillwater.org/document_center/Bike_Routes.pdf) I have tagged these as lcn=yes and named them all Stillwater Bicycle Routes in a relation. There is a bicycle club that has created other routes that do not have actual signage on the roads. see http://www.reddirtpedalers.org/local-routes For Club routes, I could tag them as reddirtpedalers routes (i.e. Reddirtpedalers Couch Park Loop) http://www.reddirtpedalers.org/local-routes/13-couch-park-loop For the Club routes: Should I use lcn=proposed? (this is not valid, because they are not being proposed and most of them are outside city limits. the county does not have any routes) Should I use lcn=unofficial? Should I use lcn=club? Should the name include unofficial OR bicycle = undesignated? Also, using Stava data, I can see other used roads that are not bicycle routes, but they are widely used. see http://labs.strava.com/routing-errors/#250/13/-97.06824/36.12651 Lakeview Road north west of Stillwater going out to Lake McMurtry is a nice blacktop road without a lot of traffic, If I was riding a bicycle, I would use this road. Should I tag these commonly used bicycle routes? I assume official = signage on the road. Mike Henson ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Server maintenance this Sunday
Hi all, A heads up that some of the main OSM servers will be down for maintenance this Sunday. Because it is happening in the late morning London time, most of you won't even notice, but if you happen to be up early wanting to map, you may be out of luck. More info can be found here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/October_2014_server_maintenance The osm.org web site is unaffected by this outage, and so is this mailing list and all openstreetmap.us based sites and services. Happy mapping! -- Martijn van Exel skype: mvexel ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
