Nick wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is a difficult problem - I can't think of any way to tell (from >> existing data) whether a road is safe to cross without an explicit >> pedestrian crossing. You can't just go on whether it is primary, >> secondary, etc - there are quite a few secondary roads which can be >> crossed without any trouble but there are also a lot where you wouldn't >> dream of crossing them (or indeed, can't cross them because there is a >> fence on the central reservation). > > Perhaps the speed limit tagging could help? I guess it is normally fine > to cross in a 30mph limit, but not in a 60mph limit without a dedicated > crossing. > > There are proposals for tagging the crossings. > > It is interesting that the lane proposal here > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Lane > doesn't have anything about whether the road is safe to cross or > barriers in the middle...
I was thinking more about actual crossing points, such as zebra crossings, pedestrian ways at traffic lights, central safety islands, pavement crossing indicators for the visually impaired, and so on .... perhaps I should have listed them :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
