On 21 August 2012 13:27, SomeoneElse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Although I'd usually oppose such Americanisms, in this case "sidewalk" is > unambiguous in a way that "footway" (or "pavement") isn't, and on the forum > thread (and several years ago on a mailing list, when this was previously > discussed) I said that I wouldn't object to someone changing a > "footway=left" that I had mapped to "sidewalk=left". Not everyone agreed > with me, though... I'm entirely supportive of using "sidewalk" when discussing pavements in the context of OSM. "footway" is even more confusing to OSMers than even "pavement" would be! For years now I've been using the term "sidewalk", and explaining why that's the best word for it, whenever I've discussed the topic. However, don't let that mean that I support a poorly documented and poorly executed bulk edit. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
