Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

I agree that OSM tags related to bicycle infrastructure could be expanded. However, I'm not convinced many of the situations raised in this discussion can't already be addressed by existing tags (e.g. vehicle=no for a street with no vehicular access). Bike boulevards are especially tricky, since

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

I have tagged 2 local living_streets that don't quite meet the strict European definition, but they are blocked by bollards, which are rarely dropped to allow service vehicles to enter. On 3/23/2017 9:27 PM, Nathaniel V. Kelso wrote: The existing OSM wiki documented tags for bicycle needs to

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Bryan Housel wrote: > I have used the living street tag once in the USA, and that is for this > street which is completely blocked by gates except for a side way in that > locals know. I’m sure there are other similar situations around the

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

Every instance of highway=living_street I have come across in the US has been people mistagging because snazzy European living streets sound so much cooler (and render so much cooler) that regular old boring highway=residential, bicycle=designated, sidewalk=both (which these streets actually are).

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

As the editor of the tag in question, and a former resident of this neighbourhood, I'll offer my perspective. Tiffany Avenue is is a minor local street that is an important thru way for bicycles and pedestrians in this neighbourhood and for those traveling from the south side of the city to the

Re: [Talk-us] greenways tagging

I agree that that Tiffany Avenue is just a normal street, not a “living street”. Our driver even drove it a few times and you can see it pretty clearly on Mapillary. https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=Tt-musXAKC5Qpuo7OAjyQA=photo=37.74456457237605=-122.42159001944155=19.941223418815095

[Talk-us] greenways tagging

I wanted to give a wider audience to this changeset discussion: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/46967476 Some Mapzen folks have been changing highway=residential to highway=living_street for routes that are designated as "Greenways." There's a related blog post too: