2009/6/12 Christoph Böhme <christ...@b3e.net>: > Shaun McDonald <sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk> schrieb: >> You could place a footway parallel to the road and map in higher >> than normal. > > I often map the pavement/sidewalk separately from the main road when > there they are separated from it by a stripe of grass, trees or hedges. > However, while this allows for a quite detailed mapping of footpaths, > it does not look very nice on the map as you end up with many dashed > red lines parallel to each road: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.4265&lon=-1.94337&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
I think this looks fine and is also faithful to the reality, even if the pavement is not physically separate from the road, logically it is a different route. > > I am thinking of tagging these footways as highway=pavement/sidewalk > (whatever is not ambiguous) so that renderers can distinguish them from > normal footways which are not part of a bigger road. This would allow > to only show them in very high zoom levels and also to display them in > less catching colours. This loses the information of which side the sidewalk is and that may be important for routing. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
