[OSM-newbies] Pavements, pedestrian crossings, road widths, house numbers, parking restrictions, speed limits, public transport timetables

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'd like to be able to use OpenStreetMap to compare different ways of
> travelling from a given street address to another given street address.

We have several routing libraries.

> At the moment, this doesn't seem to be practical, at least not with much
> rigour, because some important entities seem to be missing from the maps,
> including the entities mentioned in the subject of this email. (If I'm
> mistaken about any of this, please set me straight!)

Unfortunately, you didn't paste the items you're asking about in the
mail, but I'll respond to each from the subject.

* Pavements

I don't know what you mean by pavements. Do you mean sidewalks and
pedestrian walkways?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pedestrian

Both have available tags (and I'm hopefully going to announce
something on this soon, let's hope).

> pedestrian crossings

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Crossing

> road widths

Road widths are something we've traditionally not put on the map
because OSM is more focused on toplogical connectivity than actual
road width. We do have the number of lanes, so one can extrapolate an
approximate width from this value where available.

> house numbers

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses

> parking restrictions

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Parking
(read the section on the access tag)

> speed limits

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed

> public transport timetables

Public transportation timetables are outside the scope of the project,
and were part of another project called Transiki, which is,
unfortunately, apparently abandoned. I'm sure if you had the technical
knowhow and interest, Steve would happily hand the project over to a
new maintainer.

> Are there any plans to introduce any of these entities into OpenStreetMap?

The keys for most are already available. It's up to the community to
collect the data and enter it.

- Serge