[OSM-talk] Guides to improve navigation data in OpenStreetMap

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Janko Mihelic <janko.mihelic at gmail.com>
wrote:

> pet, 11. ožu 2016. 21:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> je
> napisao:
>
>>
>> what about the pavement/sidewalk, shall it be included? If yes, what is a
>> lane there, e.g. when there are (partially) physical separations?
>>
>>
> No,  I wouldn't include sidewalks. You could argue that sidewalks are just
> another lane, but there is a difference. The moment you step on a street,
> you are following rules of a game. Everyone on the street should know about
> each other, and act accordingly.
> Sidewalks are a different story, you can stop and chat there, there are no
> rules.
>
> So even if there are no physical separations, I would never include a
> sidewalk in the lane scheme of a road (except with the sidewalk=*
> attribute).
>

I'm not a fan of the sidewalk tag on the centerline way; just map the
footways.  Exception:  Painted sidewalks, where it's basically a hard
shoulder officially designated a sidewalk.  Examples of this can be found
in Tulsa on the Riverparks East Trail; where the cycleway is
single-carriageway, it's three lanes, with the westernmost lane being a
pedestrian lane, the middle lane being southbound bicycles and the
easternmost lane being northbound bicycles.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20160312/e1db1125/attachment.html>