Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sharrows (On-road markings for bicycle-automobile shared lane)

2011-08-19 Thread Hillsman, Edward
Not Canadian, but we have the same question here in Florida. I have been tagging stretches of road that have sharrows as highway=* cycleway=sharrows We have one short stretch approaching a busy street where the sharrows are just for the southbound cyclist, and I have tagged that as

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sharrows (On-road markings for bicycle-automobile shared lane)

2011-08-19 Thread john whelan
In Ottawa we have paved shoulders which show up on the city's cycle maps as recommended. You can tag them but the normal rendering doesn't really show them on a cycle map. I set something up using Maperitive

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sharrows (On-road markings for bicycle-automobile shared lane)

2011-08-19 Thread Gordon Dewis
I was out and about last night in Ottawa and saw some sharrow markings on Somerset in Chinatown. Sharrow is a new-to-me word, too. --G On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:41 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: In Ottawa we have paved shoulders which show up on the city's cycle maps as

[Talk-ca] Tagging sharrows (On-road markings for bicycle-automobile shared lane)

2011-08-18 Thread Darren Ewaniuk
This summer, the city of Edmonton is marking some streets to designate bicycle use on them. On portions of these streets that are wider, they have one driving lane in each direction and are painting the outside lanes off and designating them bicycle lanes (hence one automobile lane and one