John Willis wrote: > 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. > [...] > I would rather the router always error on the side of > crosswalks
Jaywalking is a North American concept. Here in the UK you can walk wherever you like, whether the road is residential, an A (primary/trunk) or B (secondary) road or whatever - anywhere apart from a motorway or somewhere else with an explicit prohibition. Please don't suggest that routers should export this people-hostile custom to other countries! http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history Another issue with routing along pavements ("sidewalks") as separate ways is the name tag. IME pavement-mappers rarely add the street name to the pavement/sidewalk, but in fact the name applies to the pavement/sidewalk as much as to the bicycle/car lanes. "Walk along unnamed footway then turn left onto unnamed footway" is a less helpful direction than "Walk along Broad Street then turn left onto Cornmarket Street". (The ref, on the other hand, usually applies only to the bicycle/car lanes.) Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Sidewalk-Tagging-for-Routing-tp5860841p5860877.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging