[Talk-us] sidewalks and trails

[PJ Houser]

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> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:53:17 -0700
> From: Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] sidewalks and trails
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> On 05/03/2011 05:39 PM, PJ Houser wrote:
> > Sidewalks as separate ways.
> >
> > I am working on some multi-use paths that travel on sidewalks for some
> > portions, like the I-205 corridor in Portland, Oregon. Mapping sidewalks
> > as a separate way is now an approved practice, and I'd like to do this
> > for the parts of the trail that become a sidewalk for awhile. However,
> > the approved tagging is highway=footway, footway=sidewalk. The trails
> > I'm working on are multi-use, thus they should be highway=path, so would
> > I need to add path=sidewalk to indicate they are a sidewalk?
>
> Where is it a sidewalk?  I could be wrong, but I swear I've been up and
> down this several times and can't recall a segment where it runs on the
> sidewalks.
>

It's more like an access path to the trail.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.4958719&lon=-122.5673215&zoom=25


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PJ Houser
Trimet
GIS intern
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