Hi, On 19.09.2017 21:09, Vivek Bansal wrote: > The Wiki: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County,_California/San_Jose_Sidewalk_Import
Let me try to understand this better. The wiki page says "We recognize we could be creating sidewalk islands since we aren't dealing with crossings or connecting the sidewalks to streets but most routing software doesn't use sidewalks and typically uses left/right tags. Regardless, adding sidewalks will eventually make things better." At the same time you are talking about the "pedestrian network" and "fundamental infrastructure mapping". But it isn't a network if it isn't connected, is it? You must be mapping zebra (and other) crossings too, so that actual pedestrian routes can be computed, or else the use of the data you're adding would be limited to walking between places on the same block of houses? Please confirm that your process will not be limited to "uploading" sidewalks but also ensuring they are properly connected to what's there on OSM already, and thereby (through crossings etc.), also to each other. Otherwise what you are doing is nothing better than MS Paint for maps - or potentially worse, since a pedestrian routing engine that *today*, because of the lack of sidewalks, snaps start and destination to the nearest road and leads the pedestrian along that, might choose to snap to a sidewalk instead and be caught on a routing island. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
