Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] sidewalks and trails

2011-05-04 Thread Richard Mann
Relations between adjacent ways - yuk - proximity tests between near-parallel ways are computationally horrible. It isn't adequate to just say the two are related and hope the data consumer will sort out the mess. The cycleway key is applied to the road to say what the cycle facility is on that

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] sidewalks and trails

2011-05-04 Thread fly
Am 04.05.2011 10:31, schrieb Richard Mann: Relations between adjacent ways - yuk - proximity tests between near-parallel ways are computationally horrible. It isn't adequate to just say the two are related and hope the data consumer will sort out the mess. The cycleway key is applied to the

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] sidewalks and trails

2011-05-04 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/5/4 fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com: Am 04.05.2011 10:31, schrieb Richard Mann: We just had a discussion on talk-de and the german community about this issue. The problem with footway/cycleway is that they mix access and highway. Well, this is valid for lots of highway types (implicit

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] sidewalks and trails

2011-05-03 Thread Josh Doe
This probably should belong on tagging, so I've cc'ed it there, also you could add to the talk page. That's a good question, and something I've thought about recently as well. I've really liked the footway=crossing tag, even more so than footway=sidewalk, so I've started using path=crossing as