[Tagging] Sidewalk Tagging for Routing

[Marc Gemis]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Sidewalks, unless they are physically separated in some way are an
> integral part of the highway. Sidewalk tags can allow a router to, maybe
> prefer, roads with sidewalks but there a lot of cases where this would
> just be plain annoying. A pedestrian simply needs to be told to follow
> the road, they are quite capable of deciding which side to walk, where
> to cross and whether it is simply easier to walk on the road.
>


Then we do not have an answer for Clifford's original question: how do
you tag sidewalk characteristics for wheelchair users: such as kerb,
slope, width, surface ? Especially when tagging is done by novices ?


regards

m