[Tagging] How to tag pedestrian lanes?

Volker Schmidt voschix at gmail.com
Sun Oct 20 22:19:00 UTC 2019


I think in bicycle-OSM we have kind of an tacitly agreed approach: bicycle
lanes (divided from motorised traffic by a painted line) are generally
mapped on the road way whereas separate parallel cycleways are tagged
either on the road way or as separate way, with the former often being the
first, fast mapping and the latter being considered the more advanced
mapping.

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, 23:24 Clifford Snow, <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the laws of the country the picture [1] listed in
> the first post on this thread, but the diagonal yellow lines look to me
> like a don't park here rather than a sidewalk. Even the one pedestrian in
> the picture isn't walking the diagonal yellow lines. Can someone confirm
> that those yellow lines indicate a pedestrian way?
>
> The second concern I'd like to raise is the two not exactly compatible
> methods we have for mapping sidewalks. In the original method, sidewalks
> were mapped as attributes of streets. If the goal is to map sidewalks as an
> attribute of streets, then yes mapping them as a Marcus proposes, pedestrian_lane=<left/right/both
> or as Martin points out, sidewalk:right=lane would be appropriate.
>
> However, since the introduction of mapping sidewalks as separate ways was
> introduced, shared use with a street will require thinking about not only
> how to tag, but also how the geometry is connected. The purpose of mapping
> sidewalks as separate ways is to allow pedestrian routing. If pedestrians
> share the street how should they be mapped. I'd probably show the sidewalk
> connecting to the street to the shared section. The connection would
> include kerb ramps and tactile pads that exist. I'd like to add that I
> don't see a civil engineer ever designing such an unsafe arrangement, but
> then, my city is just now starting to fix all of their crappy kerb cuts
> that they installed a decade or so before. I should add, I've switched over
> to mapping sidewalks as separate ways, after tagging all of the streets
> with sidewalk=left/right/both :-)
>
> Best,
> Clifford
>
> [1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedestrian_lane.jpg
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:52 AM Markus <selfishseahorse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 19:52, Jan Michel <jan at mueschelsoft.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > I also prefer this kind of tagging. I don't see a reason to invent a
>> > fully new tag for this - it is an area meant just for pedestrians just
>> > like a sidewalk. [...]
>>
>> I don't know how it is elsewhere, but in Switzerland vehicles are
>> allowed to drive on the pedestrian lane as long as pedestrians aren't
>> impeded. However, they aren't allowed to drive on sidewalks. (Aside
>> from the fact that it's not really possible.) Therefore, "an area
>> meant just for pedestrians just like a sidewalk" isn't true here.
>>
>> > For me, a kerb is not a necessary feature of a sidewalk, e.g. here
>> > https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/Hx17IpF-pZWl6AakpYUc2g
>> > There is no kerb or other barrier at all, but still it's obviously a
>> > sidewalk.
>>
>> I wouldn't call that a sidewalk and thus wouldn't tag it sidewalk=*.
>>
>> > I don't see how a 2-3 cm high kerb provides any kind of safety for a
>> > pedestrian.
>>
>> Not much, but luckily most kerbs (at least those i came across) are
>> much higher (usually 10 cm and more). They are only lowered at
>> pedestrian crossings or at driveways. Cars and buses sometimes
>> accidentally touch kerbs while driving (on narrow roads) and then get
>> thrown in the other direction. So i'd say that they definitely provide
>> some safety to pedestrians.
>>
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