* Mike N <nice...@att.net> [140430 18:21]: > On 4/30/2014 11:38 AM, William Morris wrote: >> Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway? >> User dolphinling appears to have gone crazy in downtown Burlington,VT >> tracing the sidewalks and calling them footways.
> It does add a great deal of clutter to those maps that render > footways. But for those who wish to be able to use OSM data for > accurate pedestrian or handicapped routing, the only way is to draw all > the sidewalks, curb cuts, and pedestrian crossings. AFAICS there are basically two ways in use to get information on sidewalks into OSM: - map sidewalks as separate ways - use http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sidewalk to add information on sidewalks to the main highway. Both methods should be usable for pedestrian routing; using separate ways allows for more detailed micro-mapping, e.g. width and paving of the sidewalk, but is a lot more difficult to get it right because you need to connect these ways with the main highway everywhere a pedestrian could cross the highway. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
