[Talk-GB] New Mapper freestyling

[Robert Skedgell]

On 21/10/2021 16:33, Edward Catmur wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 13:45, Steven Hirschorn
> <steven.hirschorn at gmail.com <mailto:steven.hirschorn at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Out of curiosity, one of the issues a sight-impaired neighbour has
>     raised is that the use of tactile paving at street corner drop-kerbs
>     is quite inconsistent round here. I was wondering whether recording
>     this somehow would help identify where the problems are and also
>     help with routers. Are such areas considered crossings, though?
> 
> 
> This got raised on the tagging list
> recently: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2021-October/062598.html
> <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2021-October/062598.html>
> Personally, I would say that any infrastructure, even if it's just a
> dropped kerb, qualifies as a crossing. In the rare case where there's
> reason to connect sidewalks across a road where there is zero
> infrastructure (not even a dropped kerb) I'd use footway=link.

There's one particular "missing" crossing on the edge of Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park, without dropped kerbs or tactile paving, but which almost
everyone uses. I've used informal=yes on the highway=footway as it seems
roughly equivalent to a desire line path over open ground.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/897955962