By chance I mapped a couple of crossings at the junction of Southchurch Boulevard & Thorpe Hall Avenue (http://osm.org/go/0EGQ1kp6R--). The first is not marked on the roadways, but is an asphalt path across the central reservation. The second has zebra crossings on both carriageways and a footway between them.
Just now I've added a landuse=grass area on the easternmost end of Southchurch Boulevard. This does nothing for routing, but does help with visually interpretation of the map. My impression was that in this area most natural desire lines for crossing both roads are broadly met by OSM as it stands. It is always possible to see if there are other observable desire lines just by looking for paths worn across the grass. These can be added, and I believe there is even a tag <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/path=desire> which can be added to reflect that these paths are just desire lines, not anything official or maintained. My impression is that bus stop access is probably the major factor which might result in the creation of such paths. It's always possible that someone somewhere in OSM has invented a tag for annotating ways whose purpose is solely for routing. (Some imported data on waterways has something termed an ArtificialPath for linking linear elements (streams, rivers) within an area element (lake or reservoir). HTH, Jerry Clough SK53 On 12 August 2014 13:15, Stuart Reynolds <stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote: > Hi > > > > Here in Southend I have a number of boulevards - dual carriageways with > large central grassed/tree areas. In some cases there are quite clearly > defined crossing points, and often there will be fences down the middle of > the road (especially outside schools) to prevent people using anything > other than the crossing. Here, for example: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.55374/0.66964 > > > > In other places (go west from here) there are no defined crossing points, > and people can, and do, cross anywhere. > > > > We use the data, among other things, to offer pedestrian routing. And it > clearly makes no sense for a pedestrian to walk for ages up the road to > find a crossing point and then to walk back again. But the voids in the > carriageways are just that - voids. What might I fill them with? And would > that in itself create routing opportunities, or do I need (indeed, am I > even allowed) to add fictitious footpaths? How would I even do that in a > nice way that would obscure them from renders? > > > > Thanks > > Stuart > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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