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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/03/19 20:12, Martin Koppenhoefer
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Fr., 29. März 2019 um
08:28 Uhr schrieb Warin <<a
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should the upper and lower ways be tagged with
highway=footway so as to connect the two laterals? <br>
should the laterals be tagged with highway=steps <br>
That may aid editing, rendering and routing... </div>
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<div>it would be in the tradition of pedestrian routing around
the squares, now also around steps ;-)</div>
<div>Seriously, I would not tag any of these with highway=steps,
I would rather draw another way for the routing, in the middle
of the laterals (actually the laterals may often not be needed
at all, if they are just straight lines between the upper and
lower start and endpoints. They might be needed for topology
reasons if you want to connect other things explicitly, e.g.
retaining walls, buildings, etc.).</div>
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The laterals would be required for handrails, differing number of
steps from side to side.<br>
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Adding tags on the ways does several things;<br>
provides present routing on any connection to any outer way -
including the laterals<br>
present rendering of the out side area<br>
stops validators and quality tools complaining about the ways. <br>
shows the shape of the area. While most are rectangular some are
not. <br>
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By making a system that maps all occurrences in the same way there
are no edge cases that have to have specials. <br>
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The relation will still draw attention, but that is only one
warning/error rather than 5. <br>
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