This is not the OSMF becoming involved in tagging :-) I'm guilty of quite a bit of sidewalk mapping, even though I have some sympathy for a generalized approach (adding a tag to the main road way). In reality, at least here, this tends not to model the actual topology particularly well. I do a fair bit off inline skating route mapping and sidewalks tend to be even more important than for pedestrians.
Paths that really have the character of sidewalks I tag with highway=footway footway=sidewalk this allows renderers and routers to ignore them if they so please. The only tricky part is to remember to connect paths that cross the sidewalk not just to it, but to the road itself too, and add extra connections where appropriate (roads branching off or crossing the main road). Simon. Am 30.04.2014 17:59, schrieb Toby Murray: > Wait, what is the consensus method for tagging sidewalks? I haven't > done a lot of them but I know I've added a few as footways myself. > > Toby > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Steven Johnson <sejohns...@gmail.com > <mailto:sejohns...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Certainly your first move should be to contact the user, gently > point her/him to the consensus method for tagging sidewalks, and > ask the mapper to correct their work. Hopefully, an appeal to > enlightened self-interest as well as the quality of the map, will > prevail. > > > -- SEJ > -- twitter: @geomantic > -- skype: sejohnson8 > > There are two types of people in the world. Those that can > extrapolate from incomplete data. > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:38 AM, William Morris > <wboyk...@geosprocket.com <mailto:wboyk...@geosprocket.com>> 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. Which > wouldn't be a > problem if footways weren't so cartographically distinct in > everyone's > stylesheets: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.47772/-73.21112 > > Should I: > > 1. Revert > 2. Get in touch with the editor > 3. Get over it > > Thanks! > > -Bill Morris > @vtcraghead > > > ---------- > William Morris | Cartographer > (802)-870-0880 <tel:%28802%29-870-0880> | geosprocket.io > <http://geosprocket.io> | GeoSprocket LLC, Burlington VT > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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