Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

2015-12-23 Thread maning sambale
Hi, 2 months ago, we posted this discussion. So far, we've finished tagging ~30K ways (sidewalks and crossings) We focused on several key cities with a lot of sidewalks. Details of our efforts here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/srividya_c/diary/37594 The map is updated daily so anyone can

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

2015-10-30 Thread maning sambale
> I hope your team isn't changing trails like the Burke-Gillman to include a > footway=sidewalk tag. While these do a times run along roads, they are not > really sidewalks. Can we get some assurances that named footpaths will be > left to someone with local knowledge to review? Yes, Clifford. We

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

2015-10-28 Thread Clifford Snow
Maning, People should checkout https://www.mapbox.com/osm-sidewalker/ to error checking their locality. This is a nice sidewalk checker. One comment. I have a named footway, Kulshan Trail, that run east-west through the middle of my city. While it occasionally is adjacent or near a name highway,

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

2015-10-27 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:19 AM, maning sambale wrote: > We are working on improving tags for sidewalk in the US. Details in > this issue [0]. > The sidewalk detection algorithm runs OK in most cases but fails in > some [1]. Mostly the contention was whether a

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

2015-10-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/27/2015 7:33 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: I just noticed a similar question on the tagging mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2015-October/027115.html It would be nice to combine efforts, not ? Yes, this isn't a US issue so the discussions on the tagging@ list

Re: [Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

2015-10-27 Thread Marc Gemis
I just noticed a similar question on the tagging mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2015-October/027115.html It would be nice to combine efforts, not ? regards m On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:19 PM, maning sambale wrote: > Hi, > > We are