> Well. We have a similar situation with "highway=cycleway" or > "cycleway=track". Not everybody is ready to trace multiple parallel > ways just for micromapping.
If someone isn't ready - fine, just wait for active mapper to come. In Minsk, we've come to agreement that highway=* are just routing lines, with highway=footway as a part of routing graph for pedestrians, and highway=cycleway - for cyclists. It's possible to have pedestrian routing without separate ways for sidewalks, but it's nicer when it shows you where you can actually cross the road. These represent "how people actually move", and doesn't try to follow some idiom like "sidewalk is/isn't a part of the road" and "if it's a single bridge, it should be single line". We've got almost all sidewalks mapped as separate highway=footway lines. For those who wish to "join the road back" we're starting to map area:highway polygons. http://www.openstreetmap.by/?zoom=18&lat=53.868776&lon=27.65056 The highway=footway is the main part of the pedestrian graph, footway=sidewalk is just some tag I find no use for. -- Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski OSM BY Team - http://openstreetmap.by/ xmpp:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
