Hi, We are working on improving tags for sidewalk in the US. Details in this issue [0]. The sidewalk detection algorithm runs OK in most cases but fails in some [1]. Mostly the contention was whether a footway separated by a grassy area from the road is considered a sidewalk which was already discussed in this list [2].
The wiki defines sidewalk as "often separated from the carriageway (or roadway) by a kerb (also curb)". [3] As in most cases in OSM, we would like to defer to the local (US) community on how they define it. Thanks! [0] https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/125 [1] https://www.mapbox.com/bites/00186/# [2] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2014-April/012984.html [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sidewalks -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden https://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/maningsambale ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
