Bike lane GPS tracking

General talk
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Hi,

I’m a mobile developer from eastern Europe and i’m trying to build an app that rewards bikers if they ride on the bikes lanes. I know how to generate a route for a biker but i have problem figuring out how to track if the person is on a bike lane or not. I think that open street map has this data but i don’t know how to get it. As you can see i’m pretty new to OSM :)
Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks for your time.

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I wonder whether current GPS devices and smartphones can give the precision required for this project. Those devices often have a precision above 3 meters, meaning that the cyclist could be riding on the main road instead of on the cycle lane/path next to it.

The best way to start using OpenStreetMap data (which has in many places separately drawn cycleways, but not always), is to start reading http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop

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Thanks for the reply. I found the graphhopper route planer and it gives we what i need. Just hope my project is a hit. :slight_smile: Thanks.