[Tagging] sidewalk unsuitable for wheelchair

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2017-12-11 9:54 GMT+01:00 Selfish Seahorse <selfishseahorse at gmail.com>:

> On 10 December 2017 at 21:19, Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, this breaks the semantic relationship between sidewalks
> > and the rest of the road ("this section of sidewalk belongs to that road
> > section"). Many applications do need that relationship, and it's pretty
> > much impossible to derive it automatically from separately mapped
> > sidewalk ways.
>
> There's a simple solution: putting a name tag on the sidewalk, as a
> sidewalk is a part of a road, like a separate carriageway.



+1, this doesn't create a perfect relationship, but it helps in many
situations and should be done IMHO (also greatly simplifies producing
meaningful instructions for pedestrian or bicycle routing).

Cheers,
Martin
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