2010/6/2 John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>: > With many high-speed highways (such as Interstate Highways in the USA, > Autobahn in Germany, etc.) you may have wide shoulders, but pedestrian use on > the shoulders is inadvisable and/or illegal, because crossing to the other > side means having to judge the speed of multiple lanes of traffic.
don't know for US Interstates, but for all the German Autobahns it is legally forbidden to use it by foot, horse, bicycle, tractors, any other motorized vehicle that has 50ccm and less and any other vehicle that has a maxspeed equal or below 60 (or 80km/h, don't remember clearly). The same applies to "Kraftfahrstraßen", which are roads signed with http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Zeichen_331.svg&filetimestamp=20060729145019 This one (which can besides trunks also be primaries or maybe secondary roads) we tag additionally with motorroad=yes. These are legal restrictions and I don't expect routers to lead you there on foot. On all other roads (no matter if inside or outside closed settlements, and given that there are no other explicit restrictions) you are legally entitled to walk, ride your bike/horse, ... even though you usually wouldn't (have to) do so on bigger streets. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
