Hm, I don't think so. For instance, the area I'm mapping:
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-22.77&lon=-43.266&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF In Rio de Janeiro and Niterói (the two cities around the bay), the residential highways very often (if not always) have sidewalks. However, São Gonçalo and Maricá (east to the bay), this is not the case. Here, on the brazilian urban cities, this configuration apparently is linked to the financial condition of the citizens and the city itself (apparently, the latter cities have poorer people, and the government don't care to build sidewalks for them). So, I believe we have two choices: - Assuming that all residential ways have no sidewalk, which does not necessarily match the reality; - Assuming that all residential ways do have sidewalk, which also does not necessarily match the reality; As mentioned, I believe it's better not mapping something that exists then mapping something that does not exist. Maybe a solution could be if we mark all highways with is_in:city and have that configuration city-wise (how?) [] On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 15:05, Russ Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Arlindo Saraiva Pereira Jr. Bacharelando em Sistemas de Informação - UNIRIO - uniriotec.br Consultor de Software Livre da UNIRIOTEC Consultoria - uniriotec.com Acadêmico: [email protected] Profissional: [email protected] Geral: [email protected] Tel.: +5521 92504072 Jabber/Google Talk: [email protected] Skype: nighto_sumomo Chave pública: BD065DEC _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
