I think Steve meant "adjacent to the roadway such that you can move onto/across the roadway at your convenience". This adjacency is important in jurisdictions where cyclists are allowed to do this (ie where the use of the lane/track is optional), and where there are a significant prevalence of side-roads that you can only access by moving across the general traffic (rather than turning at a signal-controlled junction). There's also quite a lot of evidence that being adjacent to the roadway has advantages from a safety point of view (cars are a lot more likely to see you). They also tend to be a bit faster / less obstructed.
I wasn't aware of any distinction between cycleway=track and highway=cycleway, other than that the first doesn't render (yet) and the second renders badly. Richard On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yeah, but it's really just an enhanced bike lane - a path for bikes that > > closely follows the road. To me, the "follows the road" is the crucial > > distinction, so it's a kind of cycleway=lane, possibly with another tag. > > I disagree; cycleway=track and cycleway=lane both follow the road - if > they did not, I really think the cycleway should be drawn in > separately. To me, the crucial distinction is whether there is any > kind of 'barrier' between cycleway and the rest of the road. If there > is no barrier (but only stripes, colour difference or such), I use > cycleway=lane. If there is some (like a bump or a height difference, > such as here), I use cycleway=track. If the barrier has considerable > width (more than half a meter or so), I prefer to draw the cycleway > separately. > > > -- > André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
_______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
