I'd only use cycleway=track if there's a track on both sides, otherwise I
use cycleway:left=track or cycleway:right=track, as appropriate.

I also add a highway=cycleway alongside, because some applications prefer
one method, some the other, and there's little harm having both (in my
view).

cycleway=track wasn't rendered on the cycle layer until fairly recently,
and one-sided tracks _aren't_ rendered. So if you want them to show on the
cycle layer, you need to create a separate highway=cycleway (or
highway=footway|path+bicycle=yes|designated).

Richard

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Bogus Zaba <bog...@bogzab.plus.com> wrote:

> On 21/04/12 00:13, Andy wrote:
>
>> Just a couple of quick notes:
>>
>> * The cycle path section is a bit misleading as it stands. The tagging
>> you have shown is for standalone paths (i.e. mapped separately from a
>> road); the majority of cycle paths in the UK are on the side of a road
>> and thus should be tagged something like
>> "highway=<primary,secondary...**>, cycleway=track, segregated=yes/no".
>> I've copied the relevant section onto my user page and altered it:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.**org/wiki/User:Spark<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Spark>
>>
>> * I would prefer to see the 'UK Classic vs Global' stuff taken out -
>> these are the *UK* guidelines and hence the best/commonest practice in
>> the UK should be given.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
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>>  I should have read these tagging guides before. I have tried to map
> local cycle paths along the side of the road by creating a way parallel to
> the road and tagging it as a highway=cycleway. Do I understand from the
> above that it is better practice to simply add a cycleway=track tag to the
> main highway?
>
> My excuse for doing it via a separate way is that I was copying somebody
> else's practice and I could see that his way of doing it resulted in nice
> rendering on the Cycle Map which can be accessed from the main map page.
>
> Bogus Zaba
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