Chris Mcnally wrote: > Hi, I need some advice. > > Around the Financial district in Lower Manhattan, New York, many of the > former streets have become pedestrian only ways, at least for a portion > of them. Wall Street, for example, has sections that are pedestrian > only. I've split the ways and labeled them highway=footway. Is this the > proper way to tag the ways?
highway=pedestrian is probably better -- it makes it clear it's a roadway rather than a narrow footway. > There are other places where gates or movable bollards are set up to > block most traffic, but certain vehicles can go through. I've seen on > the features page that there are tags for gates, but should such a road > be classified differently as well? put barrier=bollard on a node in the appropriate places, and tag the way with access=no and the types of traffic that are allowed access, e.g. taxi=yes -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies

