Guelph Bike Facilities

A reference layer of the cycling network published by the City of Guelph — 1,514 lines from the City's Bike Facilities layer, 210.2 km of them in service — coloured by what is on the ground, ready to add to the OpenStreetMap editors iD and JOSM while you map.

City data: 2026-10-24 · tiles rebuilt: 2026-10-24

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Guelph. Source: Bike Facilities (OpenData2/FeatureServer/1).

Preview

Painted lane · 98.9 km
Buffered lane (paint, rumble strip) · 16.9 km
Separated: cycle track, curb, bollards · 11.2 km
Multi-use path · 25.3 km
Signed route on a shared street · 54.5 km
Crossride, intersection, curb cut
Planned

What OSM is missing: 70 segments to map, 15 of them new City installs — a work list, newest first, each with the tag to add and a link that opens the spot in iD or JOSM. The City dated 59 rows 2026: this is the fastest-changing layer the City publishes, and the page is rebuilt weekly to catch what it adds.

Two layers — which to use

Vector layer	Interactive. Click a line to read its tags (layer `bike`: `id`, `status`, `type`, `kind`, `onroad`, `buffer`, `year`, `width` in m, `signed`, `street`, `length` in m). Zooms 14–19. Best in iD.
Raster layer	Lines drawn directly on the tiles, coloured as above. A backdrop over aerial imagery, from z14. Best in JOSM.

Add to iD

Vector layer (interactive)

Open the iD editor and press U for the Map Data panel.
Under Custom Map Data, open the settings and paste this URL:

https://guelph-maps.github.io/guelph-bike-layer/tiles/vector/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf

Zoom in, then click any line to see its tags in the inspector.

Raster layer

Open the Background panel and choose Custom.
Paste this URL template:

https://guelph-maps.github.io/guelph-bike-layer/tiles/raster/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

As a background it replaces the imagery; the vector layer is the one to use over imagery in iD.

Add to JOSM

Raster layer (recommended for JOSM)

Open Preferences → Imagery and click +TMS.
Paste this entry (the tms[14,17] prefix sets the zoom range; JOSM scales it up past z17):

tms[14,17]:https://guelph-maps.github.io/guelph-bike-layer/tiles/raster/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png

Give it a name such as Guelph Bike Facilities, click OK, then enable it from the Imagery menu above your aerial imagery. Note JOSM's placeholder is {zoom}, not {z}.

Vector layer (optional)

JOSM can also add the vector tiles via Preferences → Imagery → +MVT:

https://guelph-maps.github.io/guelph-bike-layer/tiles/vector/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.pbf

Tagging

Painted lane	`cycleway:left\|right=lane` on the road, the side relative to the way's direction. Green paint: `cycleway:<side>:surface:colour=green`.
Buffered lane	… plus `cycleway:<side>:buffer=yes`, or `:separation=rumble_strip`.
Separated	`cycleway:<side>=track` with `:separation=kerb\|bollard`, or a separate `highway=cycleway`.
Multi-use path	`highway=path` + `bicycle=designated` + `foot=designated` + `segregated=no`.
Signed route	A member of a `route=bicycle` relation (`network=lcn`); the road itself carries no lane.

Notes

The City's lane lines are drawn 4–10 m either side of the road centreline, so the side a lane is on can be read off the overlay. A few kilometres are drawn on the centreline itself; check the side on imagery.
Adding a lane or a buffer at a time from imagery or survey, with this layer as a guide, is ordinary mapping. Copying the City's lines or tags into OSM by script would be an import, and needs an import proposal and community discussion first.
INSTALLYEAR is the City's own install year. Rows dated this year or last are what the gap page calls new.
Vector tiles are pre-rendered through zoom 19; raster tiles for z14–17 (the editor overzooms them further).
Tiles are refreshed weekly from the City's service.
This is a reference layer — check it against current imagery before copying anything into OpenStreetMap. Where a way already exists, improve it in place rather than replacing it, so its history and tags survive.