In Belgium several primary/secondary roads go through town centers (e.g. [1], [2]), where the maximum speed is reduced to 50 km/h (same as for residential roads). Most people will cross the street where it is most suitable (especially near [2] where the road is even pretty narrow), not necessarily at marked pedestrian crossings. I guess Jaywalking is pretty common in Belgium.
And what about the obligation to walk on the left side of the road when there is no sidewalk ? Should a router take that into account and let you walk to the next road crossing to switch sides ? Would be pretty neat. [1] http://osm.org/go/0EpBawFQ?m= [2] http://osm.org/go/0EjrPCeh?m= On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:28 AM, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > > >> On Nov 24, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The problem with separate ways, is that none of the current routers >> will tell you that you have to cross the street to reach a house on >> the other side of the road. Most likely, they will let you walk till >> the next street crossing and let you walk back then. > > Perhaps we can have a routing engine at will interpret a sidewalk with > residential road junctions as being along a residential road and route for > Jay Walking. > > Otherwise, being routed to the nearest crosswalk to cross to the other side > the street sounds like "working as intended". Jay walking a secondary road > will get you killed (or at least I will slap you as You step off the curb in > front of me when I'm on my bike), and routing disabled people (where curb > cuts may be necessary) means a crosswalk is the only place where they should > be routed to cross. > > I would rather the router always error on the side of crosswalks, and let the > person decide to Jaywalk if they feel like it. > > Javbw. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
