Which key to indicate that a bike lane is plowed?

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I would like to indicate which painted and protected bike lanes in my city are plowed in the winter. I saw the winter_service tag in the wiki, however I want to specifically tag when the bike lanes are plowed. Not just the roadway.

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If the bike lanes are included as “cycleway=lane” tags on the roadway (i.e. not drawn separately), you can add a suffixed tag in the form of “cycleway:[direction]:snowplowing=yes”. If the bike lanes are gritted or salted after being plowed, you should use “winter_service” instead of “snowplowing”.

See relevant Wiki link here

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I would use winter_service:lanes[:direction]=* or snowplowing:lanes[:direction]=* with forward or backward as direction if needed.
This has the advantage that you can add values per lane in case of multiple cycle lanes and that you are not restricted to cycle lanes but can add information for each lane.

direction is incorrect here and it should be side with left, right or both as options.

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Thanks for clarifying the proper use of side vs direction @skyper . Your approach is probably more efficient since it handles the entire way with one tag instead of isolating the bike lane.

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It depends on how the cycleway itself is mapped:

  • If the cycleway is a separate way, use snowplowing=yes
  • If the cycleway is mapped using cycleway[:side]=lane, use cycleway[:side]:snowplowing=yes
  • If the cycleway is mapped using :lanes syntax, use snowplowing:lanes[:direction]=*

Swap in winter_service for snowplowing as needed.

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Well, in my area all bike lanes are tagged with cycleway[:side]=lane, cycleway[:side]:lane=* and access:lanes[:direction]=*, bicycle:lanes[:direction]=*, width:lanes[:direction]=* (plus sometimes even cycleway:lanes[:direction]=*).

I understand that some duplication might be useful to have not to evaluate the complex :lanes tagging but I wonder where we make the cutoff. Do we really need this duplication for all details like surface, colour, width, snowplowing, winter_service etc.

As you wrote, consumers already need to look for both tagging styles as only one style might be used but in my eyes the cycleway:*=* approach has some subjective blinkers and definitely has problems in situations with more than one bike lane plus it does not tell the correct layout of the lanes.

Coming back to the thread’s subject, we only need to use these detailed tags if there are differences between lanes otherwise a simple surface=*, winter_service=* or snowplowing=* does the job.

Edit: cycleway:lane[:side]=* → cycleway[:side]:lane=*

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you probably meant cycleway[:side]:lane=*

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Ja, warum mache ich immer diesen Fehler?
Danke fĂĽr den Hinweis, habe es verbessert.