<div dir="ltr">I have to apologize for using my @<a href="http://openstreetmap.us">openstreetmap.us</a> email address for the previous message - I only mean to use that for when I have something to communicate on behalf of the US chapter.<div>
<br></div><div>Martijn</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martijn@openstreetmap.us" target="_blank">martijn@openstreetmap.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I do that too - but only when the sidewalk is really physically separate from the main roadway.<div><br>
</div><div>So I would add a separate highway=footway here: <a href="http://binged.it/1fttMse" target="_blank">http://binged.it/1fttMse</a></div>
<div>But not here: <a href="http://binged.it/1heqqnR" target="_blank">http://binged.it/1heqqnR</a></div><div><br></div><div>Generally - don't map for the renderer. If there is a clear use case and the data conforms with general guidelines for inclusion in the map I would suggest, yea, get over it :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Martijn</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:38 AM, William Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wboykinm@geosprocket.com" target="_blank">wboykinm@geosprocket.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway?<br>
User dolphinling appears to have gone crazy in downtown Burlington,VT<br>
tracing the sidewalks and calling them footways. Which wouldn't be a<br>
problem if footways weren't so cartographically distinct in everyone's<br>
stylesheets:<br>
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<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.47772/-73.21112" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.47772/-73.21112</a><br>
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Should I:<br>
<br>
1. Revert<br>
2. Get in touch with the editor<br>
3. Get over it<br>
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Thanks!<br>
<br>
-Bill Morris<br>
@vtcraghead<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Martijn van Exel<br>President, US Chapter<br>OpenStreetMap<br><a href="http://openstreetmap.us/" target="_blank">http://openstreetmap.us/</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Martijn van Exel<br><a href="http://oegeo.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://oegeo.wordpress.com/</a><br><a href="http://openstreetmap.us/" target="_blank">http://openstreetmap.us/</a>
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