<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Do you live in Austin, TX?<div class="">If not, why do you care whether the students want to map sidewalks there?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since you seem confused about “what the purpose of this is”, and can’t even be bothered to look up any of the “long-ish discussions”, I’ve done a Google search for you to find this: <a href="https://www.opensidewalks.com/" class="">https://www.opensidewalks.com/</a></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Threatening to delete all the work from the OpenSidewalks project just because you found one poorly mapped thing is not very nice. Hope you’ll reconsider. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Thanks, Bryan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 25, 2018, at 2:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" class="">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">we had a long-ish discussion here (or was it over at imports?) about<br class="">adding sidewalks, especially related to a project called "OpenSidewalks"<br class="">which boldly announced a massive attempt at doing so.<br class=""><br class="">I recently stumbled across this changeset in Austin, TX:<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/603909001" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/603909001</a><br class=""><br class="">In it, an untagged line was added 24 days ago, with a vague promise of<br class="">using JOSM later to add relevant tags, which hasn't happened yet.<br class=""><br class="">What's more, there are some erratic sideways in the same area,<br class="">un-connected to the road network and un-connected to each other, see e.g.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id&way=603909004#map=21/30.28318/-97.74670" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id&way=603909004#map=21/30.28318/-97.74670</a><br class=""><br class="">and as such hardly usable for anything like pedestrian routing. And they<br class="">don't even look good on the map. I really wonder what the purpose of<br class="">this is. At least they're all tagged with "project=OpenSidewalks" which<br class="">makes it easier to delete them once the project has run out...<br class=""><br class="">Bye<br class="">Frederik<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Frederik Ramm ## eMail frederik@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Talk-us mailing list<br class="">Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>