Thanks Andrew, I will likely tag the roads themselves, as I don't have ground-truth on crossing types, etc, and I feel like that level of detail without ground-truth wouldn't be beneficial. I will leave existing mapped footpath sidewalks.
Cheers, Adam Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:14:22 +1000 > From: Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> > To: OSM Australian Talk List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Pedestrian/bike access near Wiley Park > Message-ID: > < > cad5vjsvfawf-lcynoy3hzbyd3mkz93zyxutsdwei-404rcr...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > There are two main ways to tag footpaths (sidewalks) as you've pointed out, > and documented at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sidewalks#How_to_map > . > Both are valid and there's no consensus. These two approaches can > co-existing and an area can be mapped with both if you like. > > Personally I map as a separate way as it allows you to map crossings, > lowered curbs, footpath surface, footpath width with the benefit of having > better accuracy (good for local council doing asset management or augmented > reality). > > It would be wrong to delete someone else's work mapping them with either > approach. > > > On 15 August 2018 at 02:18, Adam Roberts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > I'm experiencing some routing difficulties for ped/bike near the Wiley > > Park station, and looking for some tagging and digitizing advice. > > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-33.92297/151.06717&layers=C > > > > Specifically, there are sidewalks present on both sides of King Georges > > Road, south of The Boulevarde, but none to the north, nor on The > Boulevarde > > itself. Options would be to add sidewalk tags to the roads, or to > digitize > > sidewalks (and therefore crosswalks) to all other roads. What would the > > preferred path be? Sidewalk tags seems the most straightforward, as I > won't > > need to connect each sidewalk via crosswalks, but that would likely > involve > > removing the mapped sidewalks south of The Boulevarde, and replacing as > > tags. Would that be ok? Is there a precedent for the fact that the > > sidewalks are separated from the road by a grass strip? > > > > Thanks for the feedback, > > Adam Roberts > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-au mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > > >
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