I normally do separate ways, because it's easier to more accurately map
the topology.
I just pretend I'm pushing a wheelbarrow (or stroller or am using a
wheelchair) and wonder what sort of connectivity and data I'd want to be
able to navigate. For instance, it might be possible as you say for lots
of people to cross a road from pavement to pavement anywhere along the
road, but that's not true of everyone. Instead, I think we should map
the crossings (highway=footway and footway=crossing), even better with
tactile paving, curb ramp info, etc. — and that's harder when the
pavements are included in the road's way (as sidewalk tags).
But yeah, it's patchy and there doesn't seem to be much of a standard! :-)
On 10/8/21 10:55 am, Tom Brennan wrote:
I've been using the current lockdown to walk and cycle all of the
streets of my LGA (Willoughby), and I've been checking back to OSM to
see if there's anything needing updating. For the most part it's just
minor edits here and there.
I had a couple of questions, one of which I'll address in this email:
highway=footway, footway=sidewalk or highway=*, sidewalk=*
Is there a view for Australia as to which method of mapping sidewalks
(yes, I'm using the US term because it's unambiguous here) should be
used? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sidewalks
At the moment there are a lot of separately mapped sidewalks in the
Willoughby LGA, but it's patchy at best. There are streets with
sidewalks mapped next to other unmapped streets, there are lots of
connectivity issues, sidewalks end unexpectedly. I don't intend to put
too much effort into cleaning it up, but where I do make changes, I'd
prefer to make things better rather than worse!
Hence my asking.
I'm not much of a fan of separately mapped sidewalks, because there
tend to be an infinite number of places you can walk/cross etc, and
any mapping fails to capture this. But I'm not too concerned with
opening a debate if it's already been prosecuted! Just with what the
Australian "standard" is.
cheers
Tom
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Bushwalking? try http://bushwalkingnsw.com
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