- 1 Cycleway tagging
- 2 Other map features important to cyclists
- 3 TODO
- 4 Hjólavefsjá.is
- 5 External links
To describe infrastructure designed mainly for cyclists. See also: Cycle routes.
|cycleway||lane||A lane is a route that lies within the roadway||Cyclist map|
|lane||A cycle lane only on one side of the road. Left or right depend on the direction in which the way is drawn in OpenStreetMap.||Cyclist map|
|cycleway||opposite||Used on ways with oneway=yes where it is permitted to cycle in both directions.
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, or sometimes with a short oneway Way with cycleway=opposite_lane or opposite_track.
|cycleway||opposite_lane||Used on ways with oneway=yes that have a cycling lane going the opposite direction of normal traffic flow (a "contraflow" lane)||Cyclist map|
|cycleway||track||A track is a route that is separate from the road.+oneway=yes if needed.||Cyclist map|
|track||A track only on one side of the road. You can drive in both directions. Left and right depend on the direction in which the way is drawn in OpenStreetMap.||Cyclist map|
|cycleway||opposite_track||Used on ways with oneway=yes that have a cycling track going the opposite direction of normal traffic flow||Cyclist map|
|cycleway||shared||Cyclists share space with other traffic on this highway.|
|cycleway||share_busway||There is a bus lane that cyclists are permitted to use.|
|cycleway||shared_lane||Cyclists share a lane with motor vehicles, but there are markings indicating that they should share the lane with motorists. The road markings are usually there to highlight a cycle route or to remind drivers that you can cycle there. Also used for the on-road shared-lane marking called a "sharrow".|
|cycleway||user defined||All commonly used values according to Taginfo|
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
The only example (sure?) of a cycle lane in Iceland is the temporary one at Hverfisgata. An example of a cycle track is the path along the coast at the back of Reykjavik airport. Only some cycle tracks are explicitly marked for bikes with the bike symbol (e.g. back of airport), while other paths are used by bikes and pedestrians but don't have any markings (e.g. the path beside Miklabraut).
Rules for cycleways in Reykjavík
- When the bike symbol is present, these are tagged as Tag:highway=cycleway and also have Tag:foot=designated and Tag:segregated=yes. These paths will be rendered with blue line on the slippymap.
- Where there is no sign on the road showing that bikes are permitted, use Tag:highway=path with Tag:bicycle=yes and Tag:foot=yes. These will be rendered with a red line.
- It is also useful to have Tag:surface=paved, and to mark bridges and tunnels with Tag:bridge=yes and Tag:tunnel=yes.
Cycleroutes in Iceland are semi-official
- Sections of routes that have been or are planned for part-financing by the Icelandic Public Roads and Coastal Administration, have been organised in relations tagged with ncn, national routes, especially in the capital area. See e.g. http://cycling.waymarkedtrails.org/en/#routes
- The proposed EuroVelo route 1 extention to Iceland will run along the south coast from Keflavík to Seyðisfjörður. Here is the relation that was created to start mapping it : Route 1 proposed Iceland part. As of ultimo October 2014 you have to zoom all the way in to see it on the Open Cyclemap layer.
Other map features important to cyclists
Please expand this section with proposed tags, description, and English and Icelandic names of the subject. For tags not related to cycling see Is:Map Features. Discuss suggestions on the talk-is mailing-list.
Details about cycleways
- mjóir moldarstígar
- singeltrack slóðir sem líkast mest mjóum (moldar)göngustígur, en henta til að hjóla nokkuð hratt ef maður hefur þá út af fyrir sig.
- gangstétt sem ekki er upp við opnanlega hurði, né morandi í útkeyrslum með lélegan sýnileika
- hefðbundin borgargangstétt
- hjólavísar ( Eitthvað hefur þetta verið merkt á Langholtsvegi, og Einarsnesi ?)
- hjólastígur sem er varasamur
- hjólarein sem er varasöm
- aðskilin hjólarein / hjólastíg ( gjarnan við hlið gangstéttar)
- Ljósastýrð og ekki
- Morandi í 5 til 7 beygjum til að komast yfir
- úrtfærslur sem henta vel fyrir hjól með kerrur
- fyrir Kristianiuhjól (eða almennara ladcykel upp á dönsku), og snjóruðningstæki
- Svipað og sér tegund /attribute fyrir jarðgöng/brú.
- Venjuleg gata /vegur sem hentar sérstaklega vel til hjólreiða í bland við og í samstarfi við aðra umferð.
Points of interest
- Tag:amenity=bicycle parking Key:bicycle parking The more helpful parking places should be marked e.g. amenity=bicycle_parking, bicycle_parking=stands,capacity=10 (or the appropriate type and capacity). They should then appear on the Open Cycle Map, and e.g with other colours than black on this heat map of bicycle parking (which is not updated super-frequently):  Here are two queries that show fresh results from OSM : Bogar All types also wheelbenders/gjarðarbanir
- In many cyclists' view bicycle_parking of the type called wall_loops in the documentation or commonly called wheel-benders are almost worse than none, and generally worse than informal, but established ones like lamp posts and low rails or useful fences (see bicycle_parking=informal). But if the wheel benders are mapped (they are after all a an area set off for bicycle parking) are mapped, please mark them as such : amenity=bicycle_parking, bicycle_parking=wall_loops (per the docs for bicycle_parking on this Wiki, even if they are on the ground). The more helpful parking places should be marked e.g. amenity=bicycle_parking, bicycle_parking=stands,capacity=10 (or the appropriate type and capacity)
- Tag:amenity=bicycle rental
- Tag:amenity=drinking water drinking fountains, e.g. by the cycle track by Seabraut, in Laugardalur, by Nauthóll etc.
- Mark cyclestores as Tag:shop=bicycle, list from 
- On the map:
- Not on the map yet:
- On the map:
The website hjólavefsjá.is was opened by members of the OpenStreetMap project in Iceland after a blog entry by Gísli Marteinn Baldursson, a member of Reykjavík City Council. There is real interest from within the city to develop an online cycle route planner and we want OpenStreetMap to be the first choice of tools for such a project. This is also a great opportunity to introduce open data to public officials and hopefully get them to donate some useful data to OSM. A discussion about hjólavefsjá.is takes place at the talk-is mailing list (see archives).