[Talk-ca] Sidewalks

[nicholas ingalls]

My personal preference is to enable the JOSM sidewalk style and then use
the sidewalk:right sidewalk:left, sidewalk:both, or sidewalk:none tags on
the actual street. The footpaths are just about useless (as in the example
above) as they are not related to the street in anyway. So the routing
engine couldn't say turn left onto Maple Street. It could only  say turn
left. If the tags are on the actual street and not separately mapped, it is
much easier for a routing engine.

http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles/Sidewalks

Cheers,
ingalls


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Harald Kliems <kliems at gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally I don't map sidewalks like that but I respect local
> mappers' work and would not change this, as it isn't really wrong. I
> don't think there's a strong consensus to map sidewalks merely as
> attributes of the adjoining road, and there are a lot of problems with
> that approach, too. E.g. how to mapp accessibility features like curb
> cuts or the need to chop ways into tiny segments in cases where
> sidewalks appear and disappear.
> Cheers,
>  Harald.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB)
> <Bernie.Connors at snb.ca> wrote:
> > I came across this when I was working on Map Roulette connectivity
> > corrections –
> >
> >
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.98773840069771&lon=-81.24551922082901&zoom=18
> >
> >
> >
> > I thought it was not advised to digitize sidewalks along urban streets –
> Are
> > there any other opinions on this?
> >
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> > Bernie Connors, P.Eng
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> > bernie.connors at unb.ca
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> > New Maryland, NB
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