On May 5, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Arlindo Pereira wrote: >> >> Having sidewalk=both by default for residential seems like a *VERY* >> sane >> value, since in most residential areas people are expected to do a >> lot of >> walking, so sidewalks would be very common. > > At a first glance, I think that these approach makes sense in big > cities, but it's to be noticed that on small cities (at least here in > Brazil) it's quite common that the highway=residential and > highway=living_street have no sidewalk and people walk on the street > itself.
Hrm. The sensible default is country-specific, then, eh? Then maybe that's how it should be: only mark sidewalk= if it's different than most streets in your area. Then let anybody rendering decide what the default in your area should be. -- 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
