Maarten Deen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21-3-2012 17:35, Janko Mihelić wrote: > > Mappers in these towns treat ways in old parts of their town as > > something that can't be a footpath. For some reason it insults their > > vision of those ways. That's why they tag them as pedestrian > highways > > although no cars ever went through them (well, maybe some small > delivery > > vehicles). Another reason is that the names of those ways have > "street" > > From the map_features wiki page: > highway=pedestrian: For roads used mainly/exclusively for > pedestrians/shopping areas. Also for tagging squares and plazas > > So why would it be incorrect to map these as pedestrian? The fact that > > motorvehicles don't use them has nothing to do with it. > > Maarten >
Yes, the definition of "highway" used in OSM covers more than just motor-vehicle routes. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
