Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

: [Tagging] sidewalk width On 24/09/2015 7:06 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote: How to tag the width of the sidewalks when using the tagging scheme: highway=... sidewalk=both|left|right There are few uses of sidewalk:width= and just a handful of width:sidewalk= Any other ways of tagging

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

I'm still having my problems with separate sidewalks if they are attached directly to the street. Most (all) routing engines will make bigger detours to the next intersection instead of simply crossing the street. For example (

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

This form isn't used very often. taginfo shows that these things all get into suffixes.sidewalk:right:width and sidewalk:left:width are often used together to indicate that the left sidewalk and the right are not equal. ( http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sidewalk%3Aright%3Awidth#combinations)

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:06:28 +0200 Volker Schmidt wrote: > How to tag the > width of the sidewalks when using the tagging scheme: > highway=... > sidewalk=both|left|right > > There are few uses of > sidewalk:width= > and just

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

On 24/09/2015 7:06 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote: How to tag the width of the sidewalks when using the tagging scheme: highway=... sidewalk=both|left|right There are few uses of sidewalk:width= and just a handful of width:sidewalk= Any other ways of tagging without drawing separate ways for

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

There are quite a few uses of sidewalk:(direction):width.( http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=sidewalk) I think that's the best practice so far. 2015-09-24 11:06 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt : > How to tag the width of > the

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

@Christian In many countries you cannot cross a road just anywhere from one sidewalk to the other, often you are obliged to use the nearest zebra crossing or cross near intersections. At least in theory.

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

@Mateusz With so detailed tagging I would simply mark sidewalk as a separate > highway=footway + footway=sidewalk. > In principle I agree with you, but if I tag a separate footway I also have to tag all possible connections with the adjacent street, i.e. points where pedetians can cross the road

Re: [Tagging] sidewalk width

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:18:43 +0200 Volker Schmidt wrote: > and in my area deal with badly aligned, imported, buildings > that leave no space between road and building). That's why in many > cases the sidewalk= ... tag is easier to handle In case of malformed import making