My inclination is to draw them in (just on main roads for the moment) but I add an adjacent=yes tag so that there's a basic flag that they're part of a bigger street structure.
I started to do this when I wanted to mark crossings as linear features, rather than just as dots. Richard On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Stuart Reynolds < [email protected]> wrote: > Looking for some advice in Bletchley, specifically, but to answer a more > general point about footpaths. > > Please look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.99530/-0.73751 > > Bletchley Rail Station sits in the middle, and to the west is the main > road, which is Sherwood Drive. There is also a footpath shown coming from > the station and along the eastern side of Sherwood Drive, but not on the > western side. > > This feels very wrong to me on a number of levels. For starters, the > footpath doesn’t connect to Sherwood Drive except at the bottom, so it > isn’t apparent that you can cross the road to go along Selwyn Grove, for > example. Also, there is no footpath going north, nor is there a footpath on > the western side of Sherwood Drive, despite it being quite clearly there on > Streetview. In addition, Sherwood Drive already has the tag Sidewalk=both > which > rather makes the footpath redundant, doesn’t it? > > My inclination would be to rip out the footpath and rely on the sidewalk > tag, except that seems extreme and it isn’t wrong *per se.* > > So what is the guidance here? Ought the road have a distinct footpath > both sides? Or not footpath, and use the tags on the road, or just > connecting spurs from the footpath to the road at key points (e.g. opposite > Selwyn Grove), or what…? > > Thanks > Stuart > > > ------------------------------------ > Stuart Reynolds > for traveline south east & anglia > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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