cycle crossing inclusion in data packs?

[hulsiejames]

The tag cycleway="crosing", described as Tag added to way bicycle crossing mapped as separate way., occurs on a number of linestrings a number of times for Leeds, specifically 230 within the "Leeds" LAD boundary obtained from osmextract.

Specific exmaple

From taginfo there are approx. 81,000 of these tags, mostly centred in Europe.

Additionally, only 900 of these tags occur on nodes (in other words, I don't think we need to be too worried about checking the "lines" layer of OSM data to look for cycling crossings)

Is this something that would be useful to contain in the infrastructure data packs? Personally I think so

[Robinlovelace]

Very good idea, hadn't noticed that tag before, big 👍 from me!

[GretaTimaite]

I think they are essential. Crossings are explicitly mentioned in the inclusive mobility, so I assume they are important in the context of LTN1/20 as well.

The only question is if it can provide any additional information on the type of a crossing. I think in IM function I classified them broadly in two groups. Not sure if it would be of use to you as well.

[hulsiejames]

oi_cycle_crossings has been added to the openinfra package and data packs!