On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Josh Doe <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/8/27 Johan Jönsson <[email protected]>: >> I would not tag the white and black-striped area of the road as a sidewalk. >> Whoever invented the black-white striping probably did not intend it to be a >> designated pedestrian area, more something of a no drive zone, probably some >> kind of safety issue concerning the joining roads. >> /Johan Jönsson, Sweden-do not know anything about american sidewalks, really. > > +1. A sidewalk or even just a footway is a separate way, whereas the > striped area is really just a shoulder.
It's not a shoulder. It's a traffic island. > Of course you'd want to make > sure you connect the other footways to the roads, so a router can send > someone along this strip. Not of course. A better route would be to cross the street and use that sidewalk. > In the future someone might tag the section > of road with something like "shoulder:width=4 ft", > "shoulder:surface=asphalt", "shoulder:type=striped", etc., which > routers could use to determine the safety level this section. Except that it's not a shoulder. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
