Yes, as someone very involved with bicycle routing (and infrastructure), thank you for noting the distinction that bicycle infrastructure tagging is ONE thing (and important) and bicycle route tagging (inclusion of usually the latter elements in a route relation) is ANOTHER (important) thing. These are quite distinct and you CAN have one without the other, although it is much more common for infrastructure tagging to exist, but that way element is not included in a route relation rather than the converse.
OpenCycleMap (OCM) does indeed display bicycle infrastructure tagging (e.g. "blue casing" on cycleway=lane), AND it displays bicycle routing in a way that has become familiar to many users (dark blue = route part of a local cycleway network, purple = regional, red = national), but OCM does not, for example display international cycleway network routes. So, also "thank you" for mentioning that cyclosm (.org) is an "emerging" alternative (as it is current in a version beginning with 0 zero) which renders BOTH infrastructure tagging AND route tagging in a way that happens to be richer than OCM. Sometimes, OCM is exactly what you want, sometimes not. Sometimes, cyclosm can "better display" what you are looking for. But the important thing is: tag infrastructure where it exists, tag routes where they exist. Then, you can choose the renderer that appeals to your end-use as you best see fit. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
