[Tagging] sidewalks and tagging for the renderer

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am 12. April 2012 08:33 schrieb Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:
>> What are you asking? A sidewalk is almost always a separate physical way
>> (if not, it's a shoulder, except on minor urban streets with flush
>> sidewalks and no curb).
>
> In the Netherlands I have sometimes seen cycleways paralleling
> motorways, some 20-30 metres away, and on long estuary bridges there is
> often a cycleway but beyond that motorways never have a sidewalk.


I guess that in all of these Dutch cases there will be a guard rail
separating the cycleway from the motorway, so there is really no doubt
these should be mapped distinctly. On the other hand I wouldn't call
this a sidewalk.

cheers,
Martin