[Talk-GB] traffic island mapping / harmful detail?

[Edward Catmur]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 15:27, Martin Wynne <martin at 85a.uk> wrote:

> On 08/04/2021 15:08, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
> > The gate (and boundary fence) should be mapped on the field *boundary*
> > (landuse=farmland) as it's where the field landuse ends. It's just wrong
> > for you to map them independently, as the field doesn't extend to the
> > road's centreline.
>
> Nor does a footpath extend from a stile in the fence to a road's
> centreline. No walker ever walks to the centre of the road after
> crossing a stile. But every time I map that short bit of way as simply
> highway=yes for routing, someone changes it to footpath.
>

I think this is highway=footway + footway=link.

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:footway%3Dlink
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