On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 22:54, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > currently your proposal is a description of the physical appearance of the > feature, but for highways what is needed are usually functional and legal > definitions. A cycleway is a way designated for bicycles, a motorway excludes > slow traffic, and so on.
And a pedestrian lane is a designated lane for pedestrians. Sorry, but i don't understand how the way i defined it differs from how the features you mentioned are defined. > To make sense of a pedestrian lane it would either have to bear implications > on different modes of transport (e.g. in Switzerland motor vehicles can use > this lane, unlike sidewalks or other footways), or we would have to state > these for every instance of it (like we do for example with gates). > currently the proposal doesn’t say anything about it. Adding all the legal informations (use by all vehicles/bicycles allowed/prohibited, use by pedestrians mandatory/encouraged) to every single pedestrian lane in one country would be highly inefficient and is also discouraged in our "Don't map your local legislation, if not bound to objects in reality" rule. [1] I'd suggest collecting the legal informations in a table on the wiki. Later, when we will hopefully have a way to tag defaults, this informations could then be transferred to the boundary=administrative relation. Of course, if a single pedestrian lane has a locally marked or signed exception, that single pedestrian lane should be tagged accordingly. [1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don.27t_map_your_local_legislation.2C_if_not_bound_to_objects_in_reality _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
