First of all my compliments for seeking the opinions of the tagging mailing list and your effort to improve OSM.
Here are my 2 cents 1 Why does OSM need to distinguish between obligatory and optional cycle ways? As a cyclist myself I can see some reasons why it could be useful for routers and/or renderers. I think the proposal would improve if this was explained a little further. (add some use cases for example) 2 Obligatory/optional for who? When I see these words I think of means of transportation rather than types of “highways”. In NL a cycleway can be obligatory for : bicycles, mopeds, mofas, pedestrians. So when I see cycleway=obligatory I wonder for whom? 3 Legislation varies country to country and is not clear to all mappers. During the discussions on the bicycle=use_sidepath tag I noticed that the word “compulsory/obligatory” has a different meaning in different countries. Also many people (including mappers) don’t know exactly what the difference is between optional and obligatory cycle ways. 4 Is the “traffic_sign=* “ an alternative? In many counties the difference between the 2 types derives from traffic signs. In NL we have 3 types of traffic signs for cycle ways. 1 is optional and the other 2 are obligatory (for ordinary bicycles). On this map in my area <http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~peewee32/traffic_sign/traffic_sign.htm?map=cycleways&zoom=13&lat=52.15621&lon=5.46077&layers=B0000FFFFFFFFTTTFFFFFFFFFFFFF>you can see the differences between the 3. (please wait for overpass query to render) Cheers PeeWee32 2014-12-22 2:20 GMT+01:00 Ulrich Lamm <ulamm.b...@t-online.de>: > Hi all, > > I've written a proposal for the tags cycleway=obligatory and > cycleway=optional. > > Now I hope for your comments. > > Ulrich > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Verbeter de wereld. Word mapper voor Openstreetmap <http://www.openstreetmap.org>.
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