[OSM-talk] tagging roads

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 02:27:01 BST 2009


2009/8/4 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> In my opinion, "marginal strip" and "elemental part of the road" is a
> little tricky to define for all kinds of ways.

yes, that's surely for streets only, small ways won't have this to be tagged.

> And width:total seems
> strange to me at first glance. Why isn't width = width:total?

well, I'd separate width (for width of the "drivable" street) from a
total width that could include sidewalks/pavements, shoulders,
parkinglots, etc.
I wouldn't put pavements into the same width as the lanes for driving.

cheers,
Martin




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