[OSM-newbies] Pavements and footpaths along streets

[Eddy Petrișor]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Arlindo Pereira <nighto at nighto.net> wrote:
> Hm, I don't think so.
>
> For instance, the area I'm mapping:
>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-22.77&lon=-43.266&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF
>
> In Rio de Janeiro and Niterói (the two cities around the bay), the
> residential highways very often (if not always) have sidewalks.
> However, São Gonçalo and Maricá (east to the bay), this is not the
> case. Here, on the brazilian urban cities, this configuration
> apparently is linked to the financial condition of the citizens and
> the city itself (apparently, the latter cities have poorer people, and
> the government don't care to build sidewalks for them).
>
> So, I believe we have two choices:
>
> - Assuming that all residential ways have no sidewalk, which does not
> necessarily match the reality;
> - Assuming that all residential ways do have sidewalk, which also does
> not necessarily match the reality;

I am unsure that there are only these choices ;-)

> As mentioned, I believe it's better not mapping something that exists
> then mapping something that does not exist.
>
> Maybe a solution could be if we mark all highways with is_in:city and
> have that configuration city-wise (how?)

Maybe mark that in the city node with:

highway:residential:default:sidewalk = both


What I dislike is that changing that value invalidates every sidewalk not
mapped already because it matched the default :-/


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Regards,
EddyP
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