Stupid me, thank you. Had not read the wiki page.
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 07:17, Alessandro Sarretta < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Volker, > > the values raised and lowered for a kerb (node) are related to the > vertical gap between sidewalk/crossing and not really to the direction. > Raised means that there is a (more or less) big transition (in the kerb > page [1] it says >3 cm), while lowered means a smaller transition, and > flush no gap at all. All of this regardless of the direction (up or down). > > Ale > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:kerb > On 11/01/20 11:08, Volker Schmidt wrote: > > I do have a related question, regarding the kerb values lowered|raised on > a node. > Assume you find yourself on a pedestrian crossing across a road that has > an adjacent sidewalk and cycleway on the same side. > The main carriageway is separated from the (foot-only) sidewalk by a kerb > and that is separated from the cycleway by another kerb. The first kerb is > typically raised (as the tag refers to a kerb between the road and the > sideway, and the latter is always higher than the road), but the second > kerb (let's assume that the cycle path is physically higher than the > footway) is it kerb=raised (a step upward from the footwalk to the > cycleway) or is it kerb=lowered (a step down from the cycleway to the > sidewalk)? I have come across a number of these in the same context that > Ale mentioned. I fear my conclusion is that the values "lowered" and > "raised" on a node "kerb" need to be accompanied by > direction=forward|backward (like stop and give-way, for example) with > respect to the "crossing" way. I don't like my conclusion, but it seems > inevitable. > (I hope I'm wrong on this last statement) > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 06:49, Alessandro Sarretta < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm doing some work cleaning the edits we've done around Padova for the >> local plan for the elimination of architectural barriers (some references >> here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3370704). >> >> The height of kerbs, in this context defined as the nodes at the >> intersection between sidewalks and crossings, is quite an important element >> for the evaluation of accessibility of sidewalks and crossings. I think the >> agreed tagging system is: >> >> kerb=yes/lowered/raised/flush + kerb:height=<a number><unit> >> >> as described here >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:kerb#kerb:height.3D.3Cheight.3E.3Cunit.3E >> >> Around Padova I found some inconsistencies that I'm going to correct, but >> I see similar ones around the world and I'd like to ask you if you think >> they should be corrected, when found. >> >> Here the questions: >> >> - should the tag barrier=kerb be always avoided in these cases and >> deleted when found? ( >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dkerb#Possible_Tagging_Mistakes >> ) >> - is the tag height=* to be always changed into kerb:height=* ? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Ale >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing > [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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