[OSM-talk] Sidewalks
Robert Kaiser
kairo at kairo.at
Mon Apr 27 14:43:14 UTC 2015
Roland Olbricht schrieb:
> our current pedestrian routers often don't give street names, but
> instead only instructions like "look for the line on the map".
> To improve that I would like to encourage mappers to give separately
> mapped footways their proper name instead of leaving them without name.
The only correct way to put that into a clean DB model would be to
create a relation that has the name on it *once* and has all pieces as
members to which the name applies, including all pieces of street,
sidewalk, etc.
Now that is considered impractical by most people due to the editing
strain (we know how likely people already mess up relations right now).
Also, note that what you propose needs actual change of the current
renderers as they do not at this time ignore the multiple names but
instead make maps look really ugly (well, most separately mapped
sidewalks make the map look ugly in current renderers).
KaiRo
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