[Talk-GB] sidewalks

[Andy Townsend]

On 01/06/2019 11:11, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> Brighton has also just gained a sidewalk 
> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/JAn which i'm not overly impressed 
> with....or am I being a Luddite?
>
>
I personally wouldn't map sidewalks in a dense UK city like that (though 
some people do, with the intention of micromapping all the dropped kerbs 
etc.).  It's perhaps worth mentioning that at least some of the sidewalk 
edits there are by someone who has tended to contribute well-meaning but 
not entirely accurate edits from afar - it took me lots of additional 
surveys of Sutton in Ashfield* to verify that many of their previous 
"roads" simply weren't.

At first glance quite a lot of joins seem to be missing, and some shops 
were located between the sidewalk and the road (which you've just 
fixed).  Maybe if you're going to add a certain level of detail, you 
can't just ignore everything else on the map, although it's pretty 
common to do updates in stages - when mapping rural areas I'll often do 
streams first (armchair), then roads and paths (survey) then extra 
detail such as field boundaries, gates, stiles etc. (a mix of both).

Best Regards,

Andy

* you could therefore perhaps describe it as "successful armchair 
mapping" :)