On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm working on an area of LA, Venice, where we have a phenomenon > called locally "walk streets." These "streets" are, in fact, wide sidewalks. > Houses front onto these sidewalks. There is no access for cars, and bike > riding is not encouraged (but not prohibited) because the "walk street" can > have many pedestrians at times. Residents who have cars, access the houses > and parking via alleys behind the houses. > I was busily converting these from "residential street" to > "pedestrian," when I came across work by someone else who was using > "footway." Which do you think is correct?
There's a fuzzy line between them, but from what you have described, I would say they are highway=pedestrian. If they are called "streets" then that suggests they might even be wide enough that you can convert them from lines into areas. If they were less than 2 or 3 metres wide, then I would start considering highway=footway instead. A handful of pictures often helps for these situations, there's often a lot of confusion when trying to describe them in words. > I don't care (though I think the > dotted red line for "footway" looks cooler on the rendered map than the grey > of "pedestrian"). I just want to get it right. A good attitude! :-) Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
