contra arguments: - renderers possibly render more than one name for one street. To solve that
It's not (only) a rendering issue. The name of the road is "Foo street", but the sidewalk doesn't have a name of its own; it shouldn't be named. If people feel it's necessary to "tie" it to a specific nearby way, go for some other tag; sidewalk_of=Foo street ? Some have proposed relations for making up whole streets, but it hasn't gained much use with house numbering - most use the tag addr:street - so I doubt it would happen with sidewalks, either. With current tools it's not possible, but could be, to find the nearest parallel "proper" highway for any footway with the tag footway=sidewalk (or, the alternative I have been using is sidewalk=this) - where there isn't a barrier=retaining_wall in between, if it has a choise; some south european hillside towns have peculiar old streets where that last condition might make a difference. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
