mapzen-bike-map-colors-osm-tags.md

Mapzen's Bike Map (read blog post) uses OpenStreetMap tags and relations to color roads and paths according to their (relative) safely. See legend at right.

The OpenStreetMap tag rendering logic is in the Walkabout repo (view source).

This GIST is a human readable version:

Tier 1a: Dark Green (off-road)

1. highway = cycleway, or
2. highway = path, pedestrian, or steps, and one of the following:
   • bicycle: [yes,designated], or
   • member of bicycle route relation

Tier 1b: Light Green (on-road bike boulevard)

Note that this styling is not live yet, but based on comments since the bike map was published.

1. highway = living_street or unclassified, and one of the following:
   • cycleway = shared_lane, or
   • bicycle = yes or designated, or
   • member of bicyle route relation

Tier 1c: Dark Brown (off-road)

1. highway = track, and one of the following:
   • bicycle = yes or designated, or
   • member of bike route relation

Tier 1d: Light Brown (off-road)

1. highway = footway or steps, and one of the following:
   • bicycle = yes or designated, or
   • member of bike route relation

Tier 2a: Orange only (on-road)

• Any highway tag, and
  • cycleway = lane, opposite, or opposite_lane, or
  • cycleway_left: lane, opposite, or opposite_lane, or
  • cycleway_right: lane, opposite, opposite_lane

Tier 2b: Orange with green cycleway (on-road)

• Any highway tag, and
  • cycleway = sidepath, track, opposite_track, buffered_lane, or
  • cycleway_left: sidepath, track, opposite_track, buffered_lane, or
  • cycleway_right: sidepath, track, opposite_track, buffered_lane

Tier 3: Blue (on-road)

• Any highway tag, and
  • bicycle = yes or designated, or
  • member of bicycle route relation

Tier 4: Pink (on- and off-road)

1. highway = service, residential, unclassified, living_street, track, path, footway, or steps, and one of the following:
   • bicycle = no or dismount

Points of Interest

The bike map has special icon treatments for the following, based on Tilezen kind values:

• bicycle_parking kind, sourced from OpenStreetMap's:
  • amenity = bicycle_parking
• bicycle_rental
  • amenity = bicycle_rental
• bicycle_rental_station
  • amenity = bicycle_rental, and
  • operator = any value
• bicycle store / repair
  • shop = bicycle
• bicycle_junction
  • icn_ref = any value, or
  • ncn_ref = any value, or
  • rcn_ref = any value, or
  • lcn_ref = any value
• toilets
  • amenity = toilets
• drinking_water
  • amenity = drinking_water
• cafe
  • amenity = cafe
• pub
  • amenity = pub
• cycle_barrier
  • barrier = cycle_barrier

This is awesome, exactly what I was looking for since I saw the original Mapzen blog post but couldn't see the map live - looks like the product doesn't work anymore, right? This legends system they developed, which apparently was done based on lots of research, is the best color code I've seen in Bike Maps until now. Thanks for sharing it @nvkelso!
Oh, and you're still interested in the topic, keep an eye on this project I'm starting called OpenBikeMap :)

@cmdalbem the hosted map has moved to: https://tangrams.github.io/walkabout-style/ and is repointed at the public Nextzen map tiles (which are updated a few times a year). Turn the bike overlay on in the UI in the upper right corner.

Looks like an Overpass error when I load the preview map for OpenBikeMap?

@nvkelso awesome, thanks for the link! Actually doing more research I could use that cycling map through Tangram Play which fortunately wasn't shutdown neither :)
And yea, sorry for that error, OpenBikeMap is still in its very early stages...