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<div style="16px" text-align="left">8 May 2019, 01:30 by nbolten@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="16px" text-align="left">- Unmarked crossings are abstract "fictions" representing where an individual might cross the street, marked crossings are identifiable from imagery.<br></div><div>- Because unmarked crossings are "fictions", they are only suggested places to cross, according to the mapper. In contrast, marked crossings are "official".<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Just because mapping something requires real survey rather than mapping from aerial imagery is<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">not making it fictional or unofficial.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>- Marked crossings are one of the few pedestrian spaces that can be straightforwardly considered as a linear feature: it connects spaces across a street.<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Typical footway is also linear.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>- Marked crossings tend to have legal implications, as you note.<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Unmarked crossings may also have legal implications (for example in Poland).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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