Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Thanks all. For now I’ve taken the simple approach of adding a couple of small links from the footpath to the roads, as Rob suggests. Stuart On 1 Dec 2014, at 17:38, Rob Nickerson mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>> wrote: I would map to the first dropped kerb and join back to the road. I would

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
I would map to the first dropped kerb and join back to the road. I would leave what's there but add a link to the road (perhaps at the exit road of the station). Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listi

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2014-12-01 13:57, Richard Mann wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, SomeoneElse mailto:li...@atownsend.org.uk>> wrote: Usage of adjacent seems to be fairly localised in the UK: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6k7 Yeah, probably just me (maybe nobody else feels the need to make the dis

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread Richard Mann
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, SomeoneElse wrote: > > Usage of adjacent seems to be fairly localised in the UK: > > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6k7 > > Yeah, probably just me (maybe nobody else feels the need to make the distinction). I think there are some places in Germany where they have sepa

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread SomeoneElse
On 01/12/2014 11:58, John Aldridge wrote: On 01/12/2014 11:39, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Looking for some advice in Bletchley, specifically, but to answer a more general point about footpaths. : So what is the guidance here? Ought the road have a distinct footpath both sides? Or not footpath, an

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread David Woolley
On 01/12/14 11:39, Stuart Reynolds wrote: road, which is Sherwood Drive. There is also a footpath shown coming from the station and along the eastern side of Sherwood Drive, but not on the western side. I think it can be difficult to justify undoing micro-mappings, like this, even though they

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread Andy Street
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 11:39:48 + Stuart Reynolds wrote: > My inclination would be to rip out the footpath and rely on the > sidewalk tag, except that seems extreme and it isn’t wrong per se. I'd say that it is wrong on the basis that it implies that you may only cross where the path shares a no

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread John Aldridge
On 01/12/2014 11:39, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Looking for some advice in Bletchley, specifically, but to answer a more general point about footpaths. : So what is the guidance here? Ought the road have a distinct footpath both sides? Or not footpath, and use the tags on the road, or just conne

Re: [Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread Richard Mann
My inclination is to draw them in (just on main roads for the moment) but I add an adjacent=yes tag so that there's a basic flag that they're part of a bigger street structure. I started to do this when I wanted to mark crossings as linear features, rather than just as dots. Richard On Mon, Dec

[Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

2014-12-01 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Looking for some advice in Bletchley, specifically, but to answer a more general point about footpaths. Please look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.99530/-0.73751 Bletchley Rail Station sits in the middle, and to the west is the main road, which is Sherwood Drive. There is also a foo