[OSM-newbies] Pedestrian Street

[Nick Austin]

> From: Vic Morgan <vic.morgan at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: [OSM-newbies]
>
>  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 think I agree.  However I hope that in such cases you are using the
addr tags so that the house numbers appear on the map. This eliminates
much of the navigation guesswork when people use the map to visit an
unfamiliar area.

Here's a tiny area near me that shows how this is rendered:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.94257&lon=-1.44556&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

And here's the documentation for the tagging:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr

Nick.