Anthony wrote: > > Room to get off the road. That's what I was referring to as a "shoulder". > Here in the third world (Derbyshire, England) we call those "hedges". If I avoided walking along roads without a shoulder or sidewalk of any sort I wouldn't get very far.
I think that we're hitting cultural differences here. When I've been in the US there seems to be more of a general assumption that non-residential roads are for cars only and other paths (if provided, if you're very lucky) are for cyclists and the tiny number of pedestrians. In the UK the assumption has historically been that most roads are for everyone, with cars if necessary giving way to horses and pedestrian traffic. Obviously some roads (e.g. motorways, some trunk links) are signed exceptions. It simply isn't possible to globally say that a road without a sidewalk is safe or unsafe (as opposed to legal) based on its attributes, unless someone's been there and said "yes, I've been down there and it's safe to walk down" - even then it'll vary by time of day / year. Does anyone already use tags to indicate that? How widely are they in use? I can see lots of suggestions further down the thread but am more interested in what people are already using. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
