Cycle lane track colour field colours whole road

[RobJN]

As currently proposed surface:colour=blue on a cycle lane might be interpreted to mean the whole road. Why?

• highway=residential
• cycleway=lane
• surface:colour=blue

Perhaps cycleway:lane:colour= instead (matches the existing cycleway:lane:width= tag). The surface:colour=* tag would be ok on a highway=cycleway.

[RobJN]

Hold on. Sometimes this will be the colour of a shared bus lane right? If so you will have an existing osm tag such as cycleway:left=share_busway. In which case the colour should be cycleway:left:colour=*.

[matkoniecz]

cycleway:surface:color?

[mvl22]

cycleway:surface:color

Yes, I agree, that is what should be used.

Taginfo shows this is indeed in use.

cycleway:left=share_busway. In which case the colour should be cycleway:left:colour

Yes, correct that we should add the :left / :right if that is what we are attaching to.

@systemed Looks as if we didn't implement CLT_COLOUR, presumably hence this ticket. Action is:

• If CLT_COLOUR present, map the value directly to cycleway:surface:colour. If the cycleway is actually cycleway:left or cycleway:right, use cycleway:left:surface:colour / cycleway:right:surface:colour obviously.

Looks as if this will need a schema change to add that field, judging from the current table definition.

[systemed]

The lingua franca of OSM is British English, so cycleway:surface:colour of course ;)

[mvl22]

Apologies, yes, of course. Comes of having coded CSS earlier in the day :) I've edited the above post to avoid any confusion or copy-and-paste issues.

Also fixed in schema documentation in pull request #9.