Hi Sven,
Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> wrote:
Here's a question: when you have a cycleway lane/track, are bicycles prohibited from using the road or can they use the road if they wish to?
I suppose that this is different in different countries. In Germany there is a term called "Radwegebenutzungspflicht" which means that you are required to use a cycleway if there is a traffic sign like this: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zeichen_237.svg
There are some cases with cycleways not marked by this sign, but this is not the norm.
I wonder if when we generate a cycleway, we should be adding a bicycle=no to the original way?
As german law is concerned this would be the way to go. It may however not be that important, because I don't care which way the Garmin actually uses as they are on the same place anyway.
Thanks a lot for that info. I agree that it doesn't really matter which way gets used as they share the same nodes but if you take away bicycle access from the road, the gps will tell you to route via "Foo (cycleway)" rather than "Foo". It seems to me that would be more consistent and at least in some countries it would agree with what is the normal behaviour. I'm tempted to add: if(currentWay.getTag("bicycle") == null) currentWay.addTag("bicycle", "no"); so that if the original way doesn't already have the bicycle routing defined, it will be disallowed. Cheers, Mark