[Talk-GB] Dropped or lowered kerbs

[paul.bivand at blueyonder.co.uk]

It may be over-mapping, but there is a point (especially when we have snow or 
ice-covered pavements). Of course pavements and places non-motorists use are 
unlikely to be gritted in this car-centric community.

The common-or-garden dropped kerb can be hazardous especially for people with 
restricted mobility (like sticks). 

So, absent local authorities putting in textured paving routinely, it might be 
conceivable to think of an app that warned people of such dropped kerbs. 

We could of course spend the next ten years mapping all of them and not get 
halfway through.

Paul Bivand

On Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:04:43 GMT David Woolley wrote:
> On 31/01/2019 10:33, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> > I am looking to tag dropped kerbs in two circumstances; in places that
> > 
> > look like this:
> >     https://goo.gl/maps/UnBiAsxgCFR2
> > 
> > Sometimes, there are two crossings adjacent, or nearly adjacent,
> > making a place convenient as an informal crossing point for
> > wheelchairs, pushchairs, barrows, etc.
> > 
> > Often, however, there is a dropped kerb on one side, but not the
> > other, That's still useful info someone needs to drop off a wheelchair
> > user, for example.
> 
> Footway crossovers can be legally blocked by permission of the occupier
> of the property for which they were provided.  Also they are not
> necessarily in places where it would be safe for a pedestrian to cross.
> 
> I'd suggest this is overmapping, and any attempt to map a pedestrian
> crossing at the point would be subjective.
> 
> Dropped kerbs for pedestrians are placed at safe places, albeit
> generally only near junctions, and it is illegal to block them.