[mkgmap-dev] - make cycleway tracks

Fri Jul 24 13:47:13 BST 2009

Hi Sven,

> Anyway looking at the patch this seems to be incomplete. We should
> synthesise a cycleway for the following tags:
> track,left,rigt,lane and yes.
> 
> Where left or right will imply oneway=yes.

I have no problem with matching more tags. However, left, right and yes
are not discussed on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway
how are they meant to be used?

> > I have also tweaked the code for making opposite cycleways - it now
> > gives the synthesised way a highway=cycleway tag which it wasn't doing
> > before.
> 
> Hm, I'm not shure if this is a good idea, because the Garmin devices tend
> to prefer real cycleways over generic roads. This may not be the expected
> behaviour for one-way roads thus it might be better to assign the real type
> of "highway".

Sorry, not sure what you're saying here.

Cheers,

Mark