[Tagging] StreetComplete 10 / foot=yes on residential

Tobias Wrede list at tobias-wrede.de
Thu Feb 14 20:36:16 UTC 2019


Am 14.02.2019 um 21:28 schrieb Kevin Kenny:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:13 PM Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de> wrote:
>> Still, they are the very minority of situations where a residential (or
>> any other road) has no sidewalk.
> Local cultural assumptions are in play here!
>
> In my (suburban) township, few residential roads have sidewalks, so
> the ones without sidewalks are hardly in the minority. People walk on
> the ones without sidewalks all the time - about half my daily walk to
> and from work is on sidewalk-less roads (and the other half is on a
> shared cycleway).

I probably was a bit unclear. I meant to say that for situations where a 
residential has not sidewalk the cases with foot=no are in the minority 
and foot=yes are the majority.

> But I think we're in "violent agreement" that the default of foot=yes
> for highway=residential is sensible, and that tagging something that's
> the default already is nearly worthless.
>
Yes, agreed.

Tobias




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