Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Nick Hocking > <nick.hock...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nathan wrote > > > >>On 1/30/2012 7:05 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: > > > >>> Be carefull with intersecting road Cypress Avenue, we can't > recover the > >>> cycleway tag unless you yourself have personal knowledge of this. > > > >>The bike lane markings can (barely) be seen on Bing aerials. > > > > > > Thanks for that Nathan, > > > > Google street view clearly shows these markings as "Bike Lane" with > an > > arrow pointing ahead. In all honesty I can't absolutely read this > with > > Bing aerials but knowing what these markings look like and their > > position at the intersection, the Bing marking couldn't really be > > anything else, (or could they?) Corner of Alice Street is about the > > clearest one I can find. > > > > So what is the consensus, is the Bing imagery adequete for an > armchair > > mapper to claim the cycle lane or could Google claim that I cheated. > > I'd say knowing what they look like + Bing is sufficient if the road > markings are actually there (not only the lane separator linear > markings - that's too ambiguous). What I'm not sure of is whether bike > lane road markings are the same across the US (ie a stylized bicycle + > rider with an arrow point in the direction of bike traffic flow on > top). >
I can't say whether they are the same all over the USA, but what you described matches what is used here in Tennessee. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
