It is my understanding that in the US the roadway design in a urban/suburban environment includes the sidewalks, possibly a parkway/planting strip, the curbs and the traveled way. From that point of view I'd only consider mapping a walkway as a separate way only if it did not run parallel and close to the road.
-Tod On May 1, 2014, at 8:35 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > Here in Nashville TN, sidewalks in some business districts alternate every > few yards between having concrete extend all of the way to the curb, and > having planted strips with grass, flowers, and small trees between the > sidewalk and the curb. It would be rather tedious to have the tagging have to > alternate between sidewalk and footway every few yards. > > > On April 30, 2014 11:19:31 PM CDT, Russ Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Kai Krueger writes: >>> But in the US (at least in suburbia), the sidewalks are often much >>> more detached from the road with wide grass strips between >>> them. They also sometimes aren't entirely parallel to the road. >> >> Indeed. In Potsdam, NY, we get enough snow that we need those wide >> grass strips to plow the snow onto. But they're not practical in some >> places, so the sidewalk can come close to the road in places. It's >> still a sidewalk, though, and not a "way" of its own. >> >> There is not a wonderful solution for how do map pedestrian routing >> when it differs from road-associated routing. >
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