[mkgmap-dev] Changing styles and TYP integrating

Wed Feb 2 12:00:20 GMT 2011

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:00:15AM +0100, Minko wrote:
>You could also think of displaying paved footways/path with bicycle=yes 
>as cycleway. This makes it distinguish from a forest mtb trail.

That could do a disservice to on-road and city bicyclists. It is 
forbidden to ride on footways (except for short distances, in crossings, 
accessing properties and the like) and usually compulsory to ride on a 
cycleway. It can be safer and more convenient to ride on a 
highway=tertiary or highway=residential than on a poor cycleway. The 
bicycle=designated or bicycle=official suggests compulsory usage. I 
would like to distinguish the compulsory cycleways from optional ones.

I tested the 0x0d and have somewhat mixed results. It does not show up 
at all in QLandkarteGT. If it really works on all devices and in 
MapSource and RoadTrip, I guess that we can dismiss that as a 
QLandkarteGT bug.

The Edge 705 draws the 0x0d as a black thin line, with the default label 
of 'Line' (translated from Finnish). Bicycle and foot routing are OK, 
and car routing looks like access=destination when I tested routing to a 
point on such a line.

The black thin line would be a better rendering for cycleways than the 
brown dashed line (0x16, default label 'trail'). If the 0x0d works 
everywhere, then I would rather use the solid black thin line 0x0d for 
cycleways and the brown dashed line 0x16 for footways and paths.

>And how about highway=track & bicycle=designated [0x16] ?

Do you have a photo of a traffic sign that specifically allows bicycles 
on a highway=track? I would not expect any traffic signs along a 
highway=track, and I would expect tracks to be smoothness=bad unless 
tagged otherwise.

	Marko