[Tagging] sidewalks

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Fri Aug 27 13:59:23 BST 2010


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Simone Saviolo
<simone.saviolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/8/26 David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com>:
>> * If a street has its sidewalks mapped separately, the street itself
>> should probably be tagged with foot=no.
>
> -1. "no" is too strong: pedestrians are never forbidden to go on a
> road (except for motorways, at least in Italy). Maybe something like
> "not preferred", only with a better wording that I can't come up with
> right now :-) ? Of course a router for the blind should do its best to
> avoid such a way, while a regular pedestrian router could penalize the
> way but route on it if needed.

Exactly.  There's no reason to put this into the map.
foot=not_preferred would be redundant.



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