Switzerland/CycleNetwork

• Das deutsprachige Radwegeportal befindet sich unter unter DE:Bicycle
• Mountain bike routes
• Inline skate routes

Cycling in Switzerland - Veloland Schweiz - La Suisse à vélo - La Svizzera in bici

The Swiss national cycle route netwrk as of Veloland Schweiz consists of nine (Nr. 1-9) national routes, 53 (Nr. 21..99) regional routes and 59 local routes. A list of the routes can be found on Wikipedia. The network is built with a lot of street signs so following them on the streets is easy.

A very detailed map of the different routes Veloland Schweiz (for inspiration only, particularly since there are occasionally differences between the sign posted routes and this map)

IMPORTANT: the national and regional routes may have substantial parts that are not race bike compatible. The inline skating routes and some of local routes may be better for such purposes.

To do:

• Complete the routes, that are incomplete yet. Some of the information doesn't seem up to date.
• Add the comment incomplete to the incomplete routes
• Add additional things to do here

Recommended tagging with relations

Routes may be marked by tagging each way, but this is not recommended.

I recommend using a Relation per route. Just add a relation to all the ways the route consists of. Relations can be extremely easy added with potlatch or JOSM.

The relations should have the tags listed here (based on a thread on the talk-ch mailing list, slightly extended with source:name and url).

Complete tagging schema for routes at Relations/Routes.

Rendering

switzerland in cycle map

The cycle map has severe performance problems, you should not expect the data to be up to date or expect map changes and additions to be rendered in timeframes comparable to the other OSM provided maps. The following text is from the operator of the opencyclemap web site.

Switzerland Cycle Network Progress National Routes

Most of the Relations can easily be found by traversing down from the main Cycling in Switzerland Relation 27939 27939.

Switzerland Cycle Network Progress Regional Routes

Regional and Local Bicycle Route Networks

Bicycle Route Network Canton Aargau

Freiamt Bicyle Route

City of Zürich Local Cycling Network (lcn)

Office de tourisme de Gryon - parcours VTT

Bicycle related tags

It can be helpful to add nodes with these tags to get displayed on the cyclemap.

• amenity=bicycle_parking
• amenity=bicycle_rental
• shop=bicycle
• amenity=vending_machine with vending=bicycle_tube
• barrier=cycle_barrier