[Tagging] Sidewalk Tagging for Routing

[Marc Gemis]

There is already a page on the wiki, especially section [1]. Those
properties are used by the wheelchair navigation tool mentioned at the
top of that page.

regards

m

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wheelchair_routing#Sidewalks_and_properties

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:02 PM,  <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
> On Tue Nov 24 13:40:38 2015 GMT, Marc Gemis wrote:
>> 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 ?
>>
> I was thinking that, not easy but important.  We do need to do this, just not so that it breaks normal pedestrian routing.
>
> I guess the things that need mapping are:
> drop kerbs - Probably a highway node,  sidewalk:drop_kerb=left/right/both. We will need to map driveway drop kerbs too as these will be crossing point too.
>
> width - very important as many sidewalks are singlefile for walking.
> sidewalk:left:width=0.6, or 1.5 etc
>
>  kerb height - Again important,  different heights are barriers for different people, different wheelchairs.  sidewalk:left:kerb_height=10 cm.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
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