cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6483361
I see that quite a few major roads in Ontario are getting paved shoulders, plenty wide enough for cyclists, despite not being marked as bike lanes/routes.
An example of this is HWY7/12 in Port Perry - all new shoulders.
There is a tag: cycleway=shoulder, which gives me reason to think that we should be doing this.
What say you guys?
UPDATE: Bike Ottawa has some guidance on the matter. I’ll be using the cycleway=soulder tag for roads that have SMOOTH and WIDE shoulders that would work well for cyclists.
That depends on local tagging preferences.
(For the non-canadians, it would help to have an image linked, e.g. on Mapillary or maybe Geovisio/Panoramax.)
Also: a warm welcome to the canadian Lemmy-community!
StreetComplete has a shoulder option in the cycleway overlay. I wonder what tags it actually sets?
That’s an interesting thought. I may try a spot and see what it tags it as.👍
Update: when i click on a section of road in Street Complete that already has a “cycleway=shoulder” tag, it comes up as “non, but shoulder is usable for cyclists”. So it looks like the cycleway=shoulder tag is correct. And that tag shows up correctly on Cycleosm, too.
Ooh, good question. Since there’s a tag, I say use it!