[Talk-us] Fwd: Sidewalks as footpaths

[Saikrishna Arcot]

Duplication of data, possibly?

Regarding the detection of the nearest street, the risk here is at the intersection, where the sidewalk might be attributed to the other street.

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Saikrishna Arcot
On Thursday, May 08, 2014 07:02:16 PM Paul Johnson wrote:


I'm trying to work out how using name=* on the sidewalks isn't the easiest, most obvious answer.


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us[1]> wrote:




On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Chris Lawrence <lordsutch at gmail.com[2]> wrote:


Audio routing (so you can put your phone in your pocket and listen toheadphones) and audio/braille descriptions for the disabled would bethe most obvious use cases for names. In fact, I'd imagine thedisabled are a likely important audience for OSM since Google doesn'tgo out of its way to provide non-visual interfaces to Google Maps asfar as I know.


Good point. Other than using relations, I wonder if a search for the nearest street would provide a clue to the router? Not as exact as having either a named way or a relationship. 


Clifford




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