Cycleways and bike lanes

Cycling infrastructure is tagged in two ways. Separate paths are ways with highway=cycleway. Lanes and tracks along a road are tags on the road itself, such as cycleway=lane or cycleway:right=track. A union collects both.

The query

[out:json][timeout:60];
area["name"="Københavns Kommune"]["admin_level"="7"]->.a;
(
  way["highway"="cycleway"](area.a);
  way["cycleway"~"^(lane|track)$"](area.a);
  way["cycleway:both"~"^(lane|track)$"](area.a);
  way["cycleway:right"~"^(lane|track)$"](area.a);
);
out geom;

Run it

Live result from overpass.ch, cached for up to 12 hours. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

How it works

1. The municipality of Copenhagen has admin_level 7.
2. The four lines cover separate paths and the common ways to tag lanes on roads.
3. out geom; returns the line geometry, ready for a map.

Variations

• Add cycleway:left, and shared paths: way["highway"="path"]["bicycle"="designated"].
• Total length in kilometres: see length of all cycleways.

Run it from your code

curl https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter \
  --data-urlencode 'data@query.overpassql'

import requests

query = open("query.overpassql").read()
r = requests.post("https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter",
                  data={"data": query}, timeout=120)
r.raise_for_status()
print(r.json()["elements"][:3])

const res = await fetch("https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter", {
  method: "POST",
  body: new URLSearchParams({ data: query }),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(await res.text());
console.log(await res.json());

Save the query as query.overpassql. It works the same in Overpass Turbo, QGIS and JOSM.