[Tagging] Sidewalk Tagging for Routing

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-11-25 22:18 GMT+01:00 Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:

> > People with vision impairments or wheelchairs can't - so directing
> > them to crosswalks with kerb cuts/slopes and assisted signals
> > (sounds, etc) sounds like the proper thing to do.
>
> I agree, but it should not be done at the expense of pedestrian
> mapping.
>
> Using the existing style of highway attributes should be the way to
> achieve this, not adding parallel ways which do not exist on the
> ground.
>


the sidewalks/pavements DO exist on the ground. Adding tags to the main
highway way / street (i.e. splitting for everything) becomes unhandy as
soon as you add a lot of details (extreme  fragmentation of the main
highway way), and it is unsuitable for things like maxspeed on the
pavement/cycleway, surface, geometric details (shape) of the pavement,
things on the pavement like bollards, width reductions, etc.



>
> We should not be changing the database just because the existing system
> is too comlicated for new mappers.



I'm not sure if the current system is too complicated, but if I were
convinced it was and there was a simpler solution for the same problem, I'd
not hesitate to change the current system.

Cheers,
Martin
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