[Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

[maning sambale]

Hi,

We are working on improving tags for sidewalk in the US.  Details in
this issue [0].
The sidewalk detection algorithm runs OK in most cases but fails in
some [1].  Mostly the contention was whether a footway separated by a
grassy area from the road is considered a sidewalk which was already
discussed in this list [2].

The wiki defines sidewalk as "often separated from the carriageway (or
roadway) by a kerb (also curb)". [3]

As in most cases in OSM, we would like to defer to the local (US)
community on how they define it.



Thanks!

[0] https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/125
[1] https://www.mapbox.com/bites/00186/#
[2] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2014-April/012984.html
[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sidewalks

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cheers,
maning
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