On 17.09.20 02:35, Taskar Center wrote: > This is yet another example why "sticking" the sidewalks onto the > highway (as a tag) rather than mapping them as separate ways is > appearing to be less and less practical. Please see our sidewalk schema > proposal > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sidewalk_schema> > from several years ago.
Your sidewalk proposal unfortunately doesn't really address the crucial shortcoming of separately mapped sidewalks: The lack of a reliable mechanism for figuring out which section of road a given sidewalk way belongs to. I agree that we should be able to give sidewalks their own geometry, but we _also_ need the relationship between sidewalk and road. So far, all the proposals attempting to support the former end up sacrificing the latter. There have been some promising discussions recently around the sidepath_of idea, but that's still just brainstorming. Until a practical solution is found and actually used in the database, sidewalk mapping will remain a choice between two options that are broken in different ways. As for the main issue of the thread: I would welcome a clear definition for the meaning of width. In my own mapping and when writing the relevant code in OSM2World, I have counted sidewalks etc. as part of the road's width if they are mapped as tags on the main way. But I would of course change that if there finally was a documented and widely agreed-upon recommendation. I don't care so much which one it is - but we need one. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
