This probably should belong on tagging, so I've cc'ed it there, also you could add to the talk page.
That's a good question, and something I've thought about recently as well. I've really liked the footway=crossing tag, even more so than footway=sidewalk, so I've started using path=crossing as well. This of course opens the possibility of path=sidewalk, cycleway=sidewalk and cycleway=crossing, and who knows what else. I think "sidewalk" might be an unfortunate term, since what we're really talking about is a way/"path" that is associated with a roadway to provide an alternate path of travel for non-motor vehicles, usually pedestrians but could include cyclists as well. After using footway=sidewalk for a while now, I tend to see it as a temporary measure, in other words that once type=street relations are created for every street+sidewalk combination, we'll no longer need the tag. In that sense footway=sidewalk is more of a hint to data consumers and a guide for future contributors to "fix" the situation be creating a relation (perhaps assisted by a semi-automatic tool to generate street+sidewalk pairs). If you take this interpretation of things then path=sidewalk is perfectly fine, in spite of sidewalk being a bit of a misnomer. Regards, -Josh On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:39 PM, PJ Houser <[email protected]> wrote: > Sidewalks as separate ways. > > I am working on some multi-use paths that travel on sidewalks for some > portions, like the I-205 corridor in Portland, Oregon. Mapping sidewalks as > a separate way is now an approved practice, and I'd like to do this for the > parts of the trail that become a sidewalk for awhile. However, the approved > tagging is highway=footway, footway=sidewalk. The trails I'm working on are > multi-use, thus they should be highway=path, so would I need to add > path=sidewalk to indicate they are a sidewalk? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way > -- > PJ Houser > Trimet > GIS intern, 503-962-5711 (office) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
