[Tagging] Sidewalk Tagging for Routing

[John Willis]

> On Nov 24, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The problem with separate ways, is that none of the current routers
> will tell you that you have to cross the street to reach a house on
> the other side of the road. Most likely, they will let you walk till
> the next street crossing and let you walk back then.

Perhaps we can have a routing engine at will interpret a sidewalk with residential road junctions as being along a residential road and route for Jay Walking. 

Otherwise, being routed to the nearest crosswalk to cross to the other side the street sounds like "working as intended". Jay walking a secondary road will get you killed (or at least I will slap you as You step off the curb in front of me when I'm on my bike), and routing disabled people (where curb cuts may be necessary) means a crosswalk is the only place where they should be routed to cross. 

I would rather the router always error on the side of crosswalks, and let the person decide to Jaywalk if they feel like it. 

Javbw.