PS: I wrote: > But the data is NOT correct. There are only a few crossing opportunities > tagged for every street, but it is legal here in Austria to cross a street > not only on a zebra crossing, but also at ANY point that's not within 25 > meters of the next zebra crossing. This cannot be sensibly tagged with the > "crossing = footway" mapping approach that the separate sidewalk mappers > are using.
As an example: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Weyringergasse%2033,%20Wien Here, there's a ~250-meter-long way without any mapped crossing. If, as a hypothetical example, I want to go by foot from the Sri Lankan embassy to the Restaurant Venezia right across the street, the router sends me on a ~250 meter detour all the way to Favoritenstraße and back instead of the ~25 meter segment along the abstracted street I would otherwise get. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ Talk-at mailing list Talk-at@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-at