[Talk-GB] Pavements (footways/sidewalks) mapped as pedestrian areas AND footways

[Jon Pennycook]

I haven't seen this style of mapping in towns and city centres - there the
footways join to pedestrian areas rather than duplicating them.

On Sat, 24 Dec 2022, 21:46 Edward Catmur, <ecatmur at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Seems fine to me. Routers are going to have to handle this style for town
> and city centres, so why shouldn't it be used in residential areas?
>
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 at 22:02, Jon Pennycook via Talk-GB <
> talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> (resending because my original message didn't seem to go through)
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> In the Elsea Park area of Bourne in Lincolnshire, I can see pavements
>> (footways/sidewalks) mapped twice - once as highway=footway and again as
>> highway=pedestrian, and these (the ways on the map) are not reliably linked
>> to mapped roads in a useful way.  These are simple ordinary pavements (i.e.
>> separated from the road only by kerbs and with crossings in obvious
>> places).  I think the overlay of the pedestrian areas is overkill - what do
>> other people think?  I can see the possibility for router confusion (e.g.
>> if a router tries to start a journey on the pedestrian area rather than the
>> footway).
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.75863/-0.38357
>> https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=244949387389449
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1037350139
>>
>> I left some notes through StreetComplete suggesting the double-mapping
>> was unnecessary, but they were closed by the original mapper.
>>
>> I can now see these extend beyond Elsea Park, e.g.
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.76642/-0.37521
>>
>> Other than using StreetComplete, Lincolnshire isn't a focus area for me
>> at the moment (I'm trying to get through my backlog of traces and notes for
>> Purbeck and the Isle of Wight, and then housing estates near where I live).
>>
>> Jon
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