Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > > On 06/12/2009, at 16.16, Dave F. wrote: > >> Unfortunately I couldn't view your photo, but going on Steve B.'s link, > > Oops, I forgot to attach the pictures. Try again :-) The first picture > is typical of a city street, where you'll often see cars parked on the > street along the cycleway. The second picture is a cycleway along a > larger road, typically leading into a city. (The sidewalk is on the > far side of the strip of grass.) > >> I'd map it separate from the road & tag it as highway=cycleway & leave >> it as that. >> It makes cycleway=track redundant: > > > We use this in several cases, however, we have so many cycleways here, > that in cities it becomes unmanagable to use separate ways. I am > willing to explain this in depth, but I don't want to introduce that > discussion in this thread. Can you give us synopsis? > > It is the feeling of the danish OSM community that we need to be able > to tag cycleways that are part of the road construct, separated with a > curbstone like seen in the two pictures below. I would, & have, tagged examples like these as highway=cycleway. The kerb/curb is the defined separating boundary in exactly the same way a grass verge or fence does. The fact cars block the way doesn't mean it's not separate.
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