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

[SomeoneElse]

On 01/12/2014 11:58, John Aldridge wrote:
> On 01/12/2014 11:39, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
>> Looking for some advice in Bletchley, specifically, but to answer a 
>> more general point about footpaths.
>  :
>> 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…?
>
> I think mapping the path explicitly is perfectly reasonable if it is 
> (for at least some of its length) separated from the road by a 
> non-trivial distance (say more than a couple of feet of grass).

I'd agree with that - and where that isn't the case I'd definitely use 
sidewalk=left/right/both to indicate that the road has a sidewalk.

Also, it can be difficult to work out exactly what's going on if you 
haven't actually been there, so I'd be reluctant to change mapping from 
sidewalk=blah to a separate footway without a survey (unless its really 
obviously wrong - e.g. no connections at all between footpaths and 
roads).  That's not a problem here I'm sure as I suspect Traveline folks 
will all have a very good mental picture of all station surrounds on 
their patch!

Usage of adjacent seems to be fairly localised in the UK:

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6k7

Cheers,

Andy