On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, 13:22 Tobias Wrede <l...@tobias-wrede.de wrote: > Unfortunately, the legal situation is not always as clear as we wish to. > There are a lot of grey zones and we need to apply common sense when > tagging the access rules. > > Here are a few situations where I would not hesitate to put a foot=no on > the road even if there is no corresponding traffic sign. > > [...] > > By German law you are required to use footpaths if they exists on the > road. In these examples there are no footpaths on the roads so you > should be able to use the carriageways. But is that what the planners > intended and would it make sense at all? >
Afaik this law also applies to these examples: a road can be composed of several carriageways, consequently a parallel carriageway – even if it runs through a tunnel or over a bridge – belongs to the same road. If there are sidewalks or parallel footways – even if they run through a tunnel or over a bridge – a pedestrian is obliged to use them and consequently isn't allowed to use any other parallel carriageway like for example that tunnel. Regarding the tagging: while the meaning of foot=no isn't wrong, it's in conflict with our 'Don't map your local legislation, if not bound to objects in reality' rule (which imo makes sense as not every mapper – especially non-locals – might know the law). If the sidewalks are mapped as separate ways, i'd add sidewalk=separate to all parallel carriageways. Thus, routers have the information that there are separate footways that – depending on the jurisdiction – pedestrians must use. For parallel pedestrian bridges or underpasses sidewalk=separate seems a bit unsuitable. Maybe footway=separate [undocumented, but in use] were better? If the sidewalks aren't separately mapped, but tagged with sidewalk=left/right on lateral carriageways, it seems we need something like sidewalk=parallel_carriageway for the medial carriageways as information for routers. Regards Markus >
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