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

[SomeoneElse]

On 17/03/2011 11:47, Sam Kuper wrote:
> ... because some important entities seem to be missing from the maps ...
Do you mean missing from the data, or missing from a map rendering that 
data somewhere?  There is a map on the front page of osm.org, but that's 
only one possible rendering of the data - even the different map styles 
available there show different data.

There was a discussion about it here:
http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1194/what-osm-is-not
which might be worth a read.

I'm pretty sure that someone somewhere has had a go at all of the items 
in the subject (some are quite regularly mapped).  If you haven't aleady 
seen it have a read here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page
(you can search for e.g. "pedestrian crossings" there).

However, people can and do add what they like to the map, so there are 
no "plans to introduce" anything.  If you're adding something new to the 
map have a look at somewhere like tagwatch 
(http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/) to see what's already in use, and also 
have a look at the wiki to see what's been documented (although the two 
don't always go hand in hand).

There are plenty of people using OSM data for routing (I regularly use 
it for pedestrian and car routing on Garmin devices, for example).  A 
couple of ready-made services on the web that spring to mind are 
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/ and http://www.cyclestreets.net/ , but I'm 
sure that there are others.

Cheers,
Andy