2009/6/15 Emilie Laffray <[email protected]>: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_(architecture) > However, the articles on wikipedia are pretty poor.
+1 (the English one at least, also the 2 last pictures are not typical for what architects call an arcade, but they refer to the commercial habit to describe shopping-centres and passages as arcades, which might be good advertisement but is not correct in terms of construction). > I suspect that > footway=arcade would actually be the best description if I remember > correctly the definition. yes, I agree for the example in the picture, but be careful: if the way is not covered/formed by arches or vaults (round), it is not an arcade (e.g. ancient Greek "stoa"). BTW: you can also find lots of arcades in Bologna, Italy (I guess more than half of the historic center has footways like this). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
