On May 3, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Craig Wallace wrote: > On 03/05/2009 11:27, Joe Richards wrote: >> Most - but not all - streets have a pavement on both sides which is >> a footpath. Some have a bicycle path as well. >> >> But the width/size/shape and presence/absence of these things >> varies and sometimes the footpath along a street can have stairs or >> other features as it follows the street/road. >> >> How should these things be tagged? >> > I think for most pavements / footpaths / sidewalks right next to roads > they are not tagged. There have been a few suggestions for "sidewalk" > tags, but I don't think they are commonly used.
Not commonly used is not a good reason to refrain from doing something good. I think the suggestion is for sidewalk=left, sidewalk=right, sidewalk=both, or sidewalk=none. The default interpretation for highway=residential would be sidewalk=both, and for highway=trunk it would be sidewalk=none. I'm sure there are sensible defaults for other kinds of highways as well. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
