[Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

Steven Johnson sejohnson8 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 15:47:42 UTC 2014


Certainly your first move should be to contact the user, gently point
her/him to the consensus method for tagging sidewalks, and ask the mapper
to correct their work. Hopefully, an appeal to enlightened self-interest as
well as the quality of the map, will prevail.


-- SEJ
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There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from
incomplete data.


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:38 AM, William Morris
<wboykinm at geosprocket.com>wrote:

> Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway?
> User dolphinling appears to have gone crazy in downtown Burlington,VT
> tracing the sidewalks and calling them footways. Which wouldn't be a
> problem if footways weren't so cartographically distinct in everyone's
> stylesheets:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.47772/-73.21112
>
> Should I:
>
> 1. Revert
> 2. Get in touch with the editor
> 3. Get over it
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Bill Morris
> @vtcraghead
>
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