Bjørn Bürger schrieb: > Yes, but this is also the reality for cyclists. Everything involving > cycleways is actually a mess, unfortunately. That is, because a > bicycle is (mostly) not seen as an equal means of transportation.
Being considered a fanatical biker by my friends as well I share that believe. > But on the map, each distinct lane/track of a cycleway should > be handled like e.g. the single lanes of a motorway/highway: Even the > tiniest cycle-lane beneath a street has a different usage profile, > different size and surface, different access rules, different right > of way, etc. than the street. So IMO it clearly needs it's own way. I can follow that argumentation based on the fact that dual carriageways get separate ways. But in my opinion those are just as unfortunate. Every traffic infrastructure (ie. road) consists of certain features which IMHO should be represented by one single object in our DB holding information about the features it's made from. I consider it really strange that we currently map two roads instead of one only because the real road has the feature "hard shoulder in the middle". Renderers can of course be trimmed to compensate all the disadvantages that come with this strategy or mappers can be encouraged to use relations to glue these together again but that's not really solving the problem, but creating workarounds for every purpose it encounters. This worked fine when focussing on car-traffic but when we really want to provide high-quility (usable for routing/navigation) data of footways and cycleways I'm afraid we need a different approach. I'm not saying it's impossible by the way we do it now but I envision there must be a better way... > It will get easier, if support for that stuff is added to the editors. There are people who already believe our editors are too complex (not me). > Bjørn You're coming to tomorrows Stammtisch? Grüße, Sven _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
