On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:54 PM, stevea
<<mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com>stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote:
I do not agree: again, I find no evidence (from the Oregon DOT map)
that bicycles are explicitly designated "legal" on I-5. It may be
the case that explicit statute specifies bicycles are allowed on I-5
in Oregon, but this map does not explicitly do so. Again, please
note that no specific "bike routes" are designated on that map,
either. It simply displays some highways as Interstates and some
highways as containing wide shoulders or narrow shoulders. While
not complaining about Oregon's DOT helping bicyclists better
understand where they might or might not ride a bicycle in that
state, I characterize these map data as "early" or "underdeveloped"
w.r.t. helpful "bicycle routing" by a DOT.
Oregon and Washington allow all modes on all routes unless otherwise
posted. They have to explicitly sign exclusions, and they do.
Here's the list for Oregon
<http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BIKEPED/docs/freeway_ban.pdf>http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BIKEPED/docs/freeway_ban.pdf
And Washington:
<http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/bike/closed.htm>http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/bike/closed.htm
My previous post was California centric, going too far assuming for
other states. (And fifty-at-a-time only in certain circumstances).
A starting place (properly placed in the locus of each state, with
perspective as a router might parse logic and build a routing set...)
is the following:
For 100% of ways with tag highway, set bicycle legality_status =
"legal." (This keeps "everything still in the running.") Now, apply
a per-state rule (could be a table lookup, could be a smarter data
record):
With both Washington and Oregon:
exclude from our data set ways where helpful OSMers have tagged
"bicycle=no"
With California:
exclude from our data set ways tagged highway=motorway,
add to the set cycleways and highways tagged bicycle=yes.
We are right in the middle of "fifty ways of calculating a set."
Those target objects might be elements of a bicycle route. As we get
the tags right (critical, on the data and "at the bottom") we must
also treat the rules of what we seek from those data as critical, too
(from the top, down). It's reaching across and shaking hands with a
protocol, or a stack of protocols. It's data, syntax and semantics.
When the sentence is grammatical (tags are correct for a parser), it
clicks into place with the correct answer (renders as we wish).
For the most part, we get it right. But we do need to understand the
whole stack of what we do every once in a while, and pointing out
"data in California, treat like this, data in Oregon, Washington...,
treat like that..." is helpful to remember. Can we get to a place
where everybody can do things (tag) "just right for them" and have it
always work (render), everywhere every time? Mmmmm, not without
documentation and perhaps conversations like this.
This is why documenting what we do and how we do it (and referring to
the documentation, and trying to apply it strictly, unless it breaks,
then perhaps talk about it and even improve it...) is so important.
Listen, build, improve, repeat. Thank you (Paul, for your specific
answer, as well as others for participating).
SteveA
California
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