[OSM-newbies] Pedestrian Street

[Chris Morley]

Vic Morgan wrote:
> I use highway=footway, note=residential, name=whatever. This renders as
> a footway and the name appears. 
> This is a whole new trend for town planners, where people no longer live
> on streets, and their houses have no vehicular access (other than a
> nearby un-named service road) so their address doesn't refer to a road
> but a footpath. Another variation I've just come across is a large area
> of residential footpaths with a single name (e.g. Sedgefield), all
> service roads share that same name but no one actually lives adjacent to
> a road. In that case I'm tagging the area and not even showing the
> residential footpaths because it would end up a mess. 

I don't think that it is that new. Lots of UK council estates were 
built like that in the 1960s, and the lack of consistency makes them 
nasty to map. The ones with all the houses in an area being given the 
same name are much more satisfying; I've mapped some in Caia Park, 
Wrexham.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.04317&lon=-2.97053&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

Chris