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Is there a best practices guide for adding bike infrastructure data to OSM? Not simply how to add a bike path, but a list of best practices for actually fleshing out sometimes disjointed bike infrastructure information for a city.

Some big issues:

  • How to split road segments to mark on-road cycling infrastructure and when it's appropriate and when it's not. How to deal with streets with a separated cyclepaths that becomes a bike lane and then sharrows.
  • How to mark separated Sidepaths, shared use bike / pedestrian paths, paths through parks, different surface types (such as unpaved rail trails)
  • How to denote official US federal / state / county / local bike routes.
  • When is it appropriate to add mountain bike trails and how to mark them and differentiate them from commuter trails.

    I'm looking for any official or unofficial guides to point people to that will help map editors fill in this information. If this is more suited to multiple questions, I'm more than willing to have this closed and reopen separate questions.

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    OSM Cycle Routes Tagging wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/… & Node Tagging wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/… – Mapperz May 1 at 19:50

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