Key:cycleway

+/- cycleway Description The cycleway tag is used to describe the characteristics of a cycleway. Group Cycleway Element help Implies bicycle=designated Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list)

This tag is used to describe the specific characteristic of a cycleway, when the cycleway is shared with another highway feature.

Note: cycleways tagged using the described cycleway:right and cycleway:left tags are currently not rendered in Mapnik (see bug #2195).

Values

lane

A lane is a cycle track that lies within the roadway (known as "bike lanes" in the United States, Australia and elsewhere).

track

A track is a cycle path that is separated from cars (commonly referred to as a "bike path", "greenway", or "Class 1 facility" in the United States). The value track is redundant when used on highway=cycleway (or equally on highway=path). When used on a different highway type (e.g. highway=secondary) it indicates that there is a separate cycle path adjacent to the road.

opposite_lane

The route is a lane, but bicycles may go in the direction opposite of other traffic. Only applies where oneway=yes.

opposite_track

The track may be cycled in the direction opposite of other traffic.

opposite

The route may be cycled in the direction opposite of other traffic, but does not have a dedicated lane. Note - such streets are common in Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, for example, but are rare in the UK (although they do exist): often, instead, actually the street is two-way as normal for its whole length except for the very short section past the no-entry sign at the end, where cycles are excepted from the no-entry by means of a short lane separated by an island. This is called a "cycle plug". In some places this has been represented as very short oneway Way at the end with an adjacent cycleway, forming a little triangle with the road they join to.

opposite*

It might be useful to add oneway:bicycle=no if one of the three opposite values are used.

shared

Cyclists share space with other traffic on this highway.

share_busway

There is a bus lane that cyclists are permitted to use.

opposite_share_busway

The route is a bus lane which bicycles can share, but which runs in the direction opposite of other traffic. Only applies where oneway=yes.

shared_lane

Cyclists share a lane with motor vehicles, but there are markings indicating that they should share the lane with motorists.

sharrow

As shared_lane, and the marking is the on-road shared-lane marking called a "sharrow"[1].

User-defined

see taginfo for some other commonly-used values.

If a cycle lane exists on one side of the road only, or on one side there is a cyclelane, while on the other side there is a cycletrack, use the following format:

Key	Value
highway	<type of highway>
cycleway:left OR cycleway:right	lane OR opposite_lane

See the wiki page Bicycle for more examples and cycle features.

Translation for routing

The cycleway=opposite* tags can be translated (for routing purposes) to this generic system as follows (oneway restrictions presumably do not apply to pedestrians):

• oneway=yes + cycleway=opposite* to vehicle:backward=no + bicycle:backward=yes
• oneway=-1 + cycleway=opposite* to vehicle:forward=no + bicycle:forward=yes
• oneway=yes + oneway:bicycle=no to vehicle:backward=no + bicycle:backward=yes
• oneway=-1 + oneway:bicycle=no to vehicle:forward=no + bicycle:forward=yes

See also

• Bicycle
• Cycle routes
• WikiProject United Kingdom National Cycle Network
• WikiProject United Kingdom London Cycle Network
• Proposed_features/right_left