For me, there needs to be a physical separation that is more than just a curb between roadway and sidewalk to map it separately - like the grassy median in example 1 - but I don't claim any authority on the matter. If I were less lazy, I might also map the ones that just have a curb separating roadway and sidewalk.
Martijn On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com>wrote: > Just to clarify, Martijn, are you saying example #1 is physically separate > because there's a curb *and* a grassy median in between the street and > sidewalk, but example #2 is not physically separate because there's only a > curb in between? As a pedestrian, I would hope that a curb would be > physically separate enough :) Brad > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Martijn van Exel < > mart...@openstreetmap.us> wrote: > >> I do that too - but only when the sidewalk is really physically separate >> from the main roadway. >> >> So I would add a separate highway=footway here: http://binged.it/1fttMse >> But not here: http://binged.it/1heqqnR >> >> Generally - don't map for the renderer. If there is a clear use case and >> the data conforms with general guidelines for inclusion in the map I would >> suggest, yea, get over it :) >> >> Martijn >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:38 AM, William Morris <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 | geosprocket.io | GeoSprocket LLC, Burlington VT >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-us mailing list >>> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Martijn van Exel >> President, US Chapter >> OpenStreetMap >> http://openstreetmap.us/ >> http://osm.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> 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 > > -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/
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