[Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

[Richard Mann]

My inclination is to draw them in (just on main roads for the moment) but I
add an adjacent=yes tag so that there's a basic flag that they're part of a
bigger street structure.

I started to do this when I wanted to mark crossings as linear features,
rather than just as dots.

Richard

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Stuart Reynolds <
stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote:

>  Looking for some advice in Bletchley, specifically, but to answer a more
> general point about footpaths.
>
>  Please look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.99530/-0.73751
>
>  Bletchley Rail Station sits in the middle, and to the west is the main
> road, which is Sherwood Drive. There is also a footpath shown coming from
> the station and along the eastern side of Sherwood Drive, but not on the
> western side.
>
>  This feels very wrong to me on a number of levels. For starters, the
> footpath doesn’t connect to Sherwood Drive except at the bottom, so it
> isn’t apparent that you can cross the road to go along Selwyn Grove, for
> example. Also, there is no footpath going north, nor is there a footpath on
> the western side of Sherwood Drive, despite it being quite clearly there on
> Streetview. In addition, Sherwood Drive already has the tag Sidewalk=both which
> rather makes the footpath redundant, doesn’t it?
>
>  My inclination would be to rip out the footpath and rely on the sidewalk
> tag, except that seems extreme and it isn’t wrong *per se.*
>
>  So what is the guidance here? Ought the road have a distinct footpath
> both sides? Or not footpath, and use the tags on the road, or just
> connecting spurs from the footpath to the road at key points (e.g. opposite
> Selwyn Grove), or what…?
>
>  Thanks
> Stuart
>
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