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<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"/> <title>User:Richard - OpenStreetMap Wiki</title> <script>document.documentElement.className="client-js";RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"73c1d08475dcdbd207e3b53f","wgCSPNonce":false,"wgCanonicalNamespace":"User","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":2,"wgPageName":"User:Richard","wgTitle":"Richard","wgCurRevisionId":2326062,"wgRevisionId":2326062,"wgArticleId":1142,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":["Users whose contributions are in the public domain","Anarchists"],"wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"User:Richard","wgRelevantArticleId":1142,"wgIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[], "wgRelevantUserName":"Richard","wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":false,"nearby":false,"watchlist":false,"tagline":false},"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgULSAcceptLanguageList":[],"wgULSCurrentAutonym":"English","wgVector2022PreviewPages":[],"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":false,"wgULSPosition":"personal","wgULSisCompactLinksEnabled":true};RLSTATE={"site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","skins.vector.styles.legacy":"ready","ext.OsmWikibase-all":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","ext.uls.pt":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["site","mediawiki.page.ready","skins.vector.legacy.js","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.gadget.taginfo","ext.gadget.dataitemlinks","ext.gadget.maps","ext.uls.compactlinks","ext.uls.interface"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.implement("user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"});});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.OsmWikibase-all%7Cext.uls.pt%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cskins.vector.styles.legacy&only=styles&skin=vector"/> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector"/> <noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=noscript&only=styles&skin=vector"/></noscript> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.39.11"/> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"/> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1000"/> <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico"/> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/opensearch_desc.php" title="OpenStreetMap Wiki (en)"/> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"/> <link rel="license" href="/wiki/Wiki_content_license"/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="OpenStreetMap Wiki Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"/> </head> <body class="mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-2 ns-subject page-User_Richard rootpage-User_Richard skin-vector action-view skin-vector-legacy vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-language-alert-in-sidebar-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-edit-disabled vector-feature-table-of-contents-disabled vector-feature-visual-enhancement-next-disabled"><div id="mw-page-base" class="noprint"></div> <div id="mw-head-base" class="noprint"></div> <div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main"> <a id="top"></a> <div id="siteNotice"></div> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">User</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard</span></h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From OpenStreetMap Wiki</div> <div id="contentSub"></div> <div id="contentSub2"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav"></div> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#mw-head">Jump to navigation</a> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#searchInput">Jump to search</a> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p>I'm Richard Fairhurst - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.systemeD.net/carto/">cartographer</a>, developer, journalist, bike advocate and canal person. I've been involved in OpenStreetMap <a class="external text" href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2004-November/000111.html">since November 2004</a>. </p><p>I'm building <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cycle.travel/">cycle.travel</a>, perhaps the most advanced bike routing engine in the world with OSM-powered maps and journey-planning. </p><p>I've written OSM stuff including <a href="/wiki/Tilemaker" title="Tilemaker">Tilemaker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Potlatch_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Potlatch 3">Potlatch 3</a> (...and 1 and 2). I map in the Cotswolds where I live; elsewhere where I visit; and am regrettably involved in the Sisyphean task of TIGER fixup, particularly identifying rural paved roads. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Useful_cycleway_tagging">Useful cycleway tagging</span></h3> <p>As an aide-memoire: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_features/cycleway:separation" class="mw-redirect" title="Proposed features/cycleway:separation">Proposed_features/cycleway:separation</a> - can be used to continue cycleways over a junction with separation=no</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:is_sidepath" class="mw-redirect" title="Proposed features/Key:is sidepath">Proposed_features/Key:is_sidepath</a> - use this to mark that a cycleway is a roadside path</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tag:junction%3Dyes#How_to_use_on_an_area" title="Tag:junction=yes">Tag:junction=yes#How_to_use_on_an_area</a> - junction=yes for an area so turn instructions can be collapsed</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Key:bicycle:type" title="Key:bicycle:type">Key:bicycle:type</a> - probably the easiest way of differentiating gravel bike routes</li></ul> <div class="boilerplate" style="margin:0 auto;width:60%;background-color:#f7f8ff;border:2px solid #8888aa;padding:4px;font-size:95%;min-height:64px;vertical-align:center"> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="floatleft"><a href="/wiki/File:PD-icon.svg" class="image" title="Public domain"><img alt="Public domain" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/40px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/60px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/80px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" /></a></div> </td> <td>All my contributions to OpenStreetMap are released into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:public domain">public domain</a>. This applies worldwide.<br />In case this is not legally possible, I grant anyone the right to use my contributions <b>for any purpose</b>, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <dl><dd></dd></dl> <div class="boilerplate" style="margin:0 auto;width:80%;background-color:#f7f8ff;border:2px solid #8888aa;padding:4px;font-size:95%;vertical-align:center"> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="floatleft"><a href="/wiki/File:Circle-A_red.svg" class="image" title="Anarchy"><img alt="Anarchy" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Circle-A_red.svg/43px-Circle-A_red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="43" height="43" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Circle-A_red.svg/65px-Circle-A_red.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Circle-A_red.svg/86px-Circle-A_red.svg.png 2x" /></a></div> </td> <td>I don't give a flying monkey's for tag voting, automatic changebots, endless discussions, <a href="/wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories" class="mw-redirect" title="Relations/Relations are not Categories">categories</a>, or any of that crap, but prefer to get on and actually <b>do</b> stuff. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div>    </div> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Richard&oldid=2326062">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Richard&oldid=2326062</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Users_whose_contributions_are_in_the_public_domain" title="Category:Users whose contributions are in the public domain">Users whose contributions are in the public domain</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Anarchists" title="Category:Anarchists">Anarchists</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="mw-head"> <nav id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal vector-user-menu-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-personal-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Personal tools</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li id="pt-uls" class="mw-list-item active"><a class="uls-trigger" href="#"><span>English</span></a></li><li id="pt-createaccount" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=User%3ARichard" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; 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