[Accessibility] Mapping complex road junctions with pedestrian crossings

[Flaimo]

there already is an approved proposal for footway=crossing/sidewalk
which also introduced sloped kerbs:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_as_separate_way
. footway=crossing has been used over 16000 times so far;
footway=sidewalk 30000 times. i started tagging those, as soon as the
proposal was approved. for example at this junction:
http://osm.org/go/0JhM2ot0J--

regards,
flaimo

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 13:00,  <accessibility-request at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:58:08 +0100
> From: Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>
> To: accessibility at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Accessibility] Mapping complex road junctions with
>        pedestrian crossings
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> Hi John.
> Welcome on this list.
> I'm sighted too, but working on the Look-and-Listen-Map currently and
> did my bachelor thesis about navigation for the blind.
> In the thesis I proposed a tagging scheme similar to what you propose here:
> A way cutting the street, where the common nodes are tagged as
> highway=crossing, crossing=* and a node between the middle node and the
> "border" node tagged with sloped_curb=* and tactile_paving=*.
> I did not tag the way itself different than any footway, but yes, that
> may be a good idea.