David, thanks for putting this up. Like I've said on the talk page, I believe this and the other sidewalk proposal can coexist, although I prefer your proposed scheme.
Regards, -Josh On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, David Paleino <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > as promised, I came back with an "official" proposal. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way > > I tried to summarize what my ideas are, and why I don't believe that tagging > the main road is any good. > > To summarize here: to tag a sidewalk: > > * highway=footway > * footway=sidewalk > > It's that simple. > The basic idea is that sidewalks *are* footways. From the highway=footway > page: > "for designated footpaths, i.e. mainly/exclusively for pedestrians". And > sidewalks perfectly fit IMVHO :) > > The proposal also lists cases for crossings and other features, but that's the > basic tagging. > > Enjoy, > David > > -- > . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino > : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ > `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal > `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
