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

[Marc Gemis]

I just noticed a similar question on the tagging mailing list:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2015-October/027115.html
It would be nice to combine efforts, not ?

regards

m

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:19 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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