Hi Tom
I'll also add my voice here, as I've been working on "sidewalks" in my
area as well: I agree with your summary.
I try to add sidewalks for precise pedestrian routing (with safe
crossing) and improved routing for wheelchair users (adding curb tags)
and visually impaired users (adding tactile paving tags). I follow
pretty much exactly what you listed at the moment, although I realised I
can improve my practice by using the more precise sidewalk:xxx=separate
on the roads (rather than just sidewalk=separate).
You can see my progress in the West End / Kurilpa area:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/-27.4810/153.0120&layers=C
A good place to test pedestrian or wheelchair routing is
OpenRouteService: https://maps.openrouteservice.org
Cheers
On 11/8/21 2:07 pm, Tom Brennan wrote:
Thanks for the feedback.
Just to summarise my reading of the replies, it sounds like there is:
1. a preference for separately mapped sidewalks (highway=footway +
footway=sidewalk)
2. no harm in also adding tags to the road (sidewalk:both=separate, or
sidewalk:left=separate / sidewalk:right=separate) as appropriate
I won't necessarily be adding things, but I'll fix up any sidewalk
problems with this in mind.
> I've probably passed you without realising then.
Most likely! I'm out and about almost every day!
cheers
Tom
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