> From: Vic Morgan <[email protected]> > Subject: [OSM-newbies] > > Another variation I've just come across is a large area > of residential footpaths with a single name (e.g. Sedgefield), all > service roads share that same name but no one actually lives adjacent to > a road. In that case I'm tagging the area and not even showing the > residential footpaths because it would end up a mess. > > That it is a mess is another reason to map it and not omit it. Some may see it as documenting the folly. There is not much reason to not map a way and many good reasons to do so. But the single best reason is that we do not know what possible uses this data may be put to. If the data is there we can hope someone's imagination will run with it. I submit, as an example, a route calculator for people with a prams, pushchairs or in a wheelchair who need a route to those locations. That would need these ways mapped. How it renders is a renderer issue not a data issue.
To answer the original question; if the footpaths have the same name they are conceptually the same street and so, like other 'reclaimed' streets, I tag as highway=pedestrian, foot=whatever, bicycle=whatever and others like 'surface' and 'width' to taste. I suppose some might argue for 'highway=footway' but it's up to you. Joe _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
