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

[Edward Catmur]

Permissible, sure, but jumping a kerb may well be impracticable for people
who use wheelchairs or have other mobility issues. When done correctly,
mapping sidewalk and crossing detail is beneficial for accessibility.

On Mon, 26 Dec 2022, 14:26 David Woolley, <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 24/12/2022 21:01, Jon Pennycook via Talk-GB wrote:
> > 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
>
> My impression is that OSM generally has a problem with changing
> abstractions at different zoom levels.  I don't know how OS handle this
> in their map databases, but the problem here is that the user is trying
> to get the plan type view that appears on the sort of OS maps used for
> planning applications, to coexist with a much more route planning type
> abstraction.
>
> It seems to be common to map footways over pedestrian areas, even though
> they don't exist on the ground.  I've given up arguing on these, as they
> will reappear if you remove them.  In my view, they are really mapping
> for the renderer; the argument is that, without them routers either
> don't route at all, or route around the edge of the area.
>
> Although I've used them myself, I have misgivings about separated
> sidewalks,  because of the awkwardnesses where they begin and end, and
> because you end up with arbitrary crossing points which are often not on
> the ground, and generally only sample.  It may be too late to change,
> but there needs to be a better way of indicating that interchanging
> between two parallel constructs is permissible everywhere.
>
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