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<div style="16px" text-align="left">20 Oct 2019, 19:08 by selfishseahorse@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 12:42, Tobias Zwick <osm@westnordost.de> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">How about:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">sidewalk=right<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">sidewalk:right:kerb=no<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I dislike using these tags for pedestrian lanes for the following<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">reasons (sorry if i repeat myself):<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> * It doesn't make sense: if it doesn't have a kerb (or any other<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">physical barrier) it isn't a sidewalk.</div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I am curious about opinion of a native speaker<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">of British English.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Are you maybe one?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(Sorry for poor phrasing here,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I tried to make it less aggressive and failed)</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"> * Blind people are able to make out a sidewalk, but not a pedestrian lane.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">No one argues against tagging this info.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">We only disagree how it should be tagged.</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"> * It's misleading: Data users may not know the tag<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">sidewalk:right:kerb=no and thus may make wrong assumptions. For<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">example, a navigation application may guide a pedestrian along a route<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">with only pedestrian lanes instead of safer route with sidewalks.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">And with a new incompatible tag<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">routing software may guide along<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">road without even such lane, instead of<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">using route where at least pedestrian<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">lanes are present.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">In both cases routing software would<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">benefit from an upgrade.</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> * pedestrian_lane=<left/right/both> is simpler for mappers and data users.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Depends on whatever you consider<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">it as a low quality sidewalk or<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">a separate feature.</div> </body>
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