[Tagging] Formally informal sidewalks

Nick Bolten nbolten at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 14:41:31 UTC 2017


If those two footways make up a reasonable continuing path, that's a good
case for using the unmarked crossing tagging schema. It communicates all of
the features actually being traversed (footway -> crossing the street ->
footway) and is extensible: you can easily add curb and surface information.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 7:35 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 14. Jul 2017, at 13:16, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> But what if there are no crossings marked? Do we have to invent
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> crossings then ? (e.g. near each junction)
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> It is not uncommon to have such a network of sidewalks without
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> "zebra"-crossings.
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> People are allowed to cross everywhere then.
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> I wouldn't map the sidewalks as proper footways in this case, but you
> could also "connect" them with a relation, e.g. type=area. The footways
> inside the block should connect with the road, e.g. here
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=64.08781&mlon=-21.89969#map=19/64.08781/-21.89969w
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> cheers,
> Martin
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