[Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 15:59:19 UTC 2014


Wait, what is the consensus method for tagging sidewalks? I haven't done a
lot of them but I know I've added a few as footways myself.

Toby


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> -- twitter: @geomantic
> -- skype: sejohnson8
>
> 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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