2010/8/27 Alberto Nogaro <bartosom...@yahoo.it>: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:tagging- >>boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Simone Saviolo >>Sent: venerdì 27 agosto 2010 9.41 >>To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools >>Subject: Re: [Tagging] sidewalks >> >>2010/8/26 David ``Smith'' <vidthe...@gmail.com>: >>> * If a street has its sidewalks mapped separately, the street itself >>> should probably be tagged with foot=no. >> >>-1. "no" is too strong: pedestrians are never forbidden to go on a >>road (except for motorways, at least in Italy). > > Not really. In Italy pedestrians are forbidden to walk on any road, when > paths (such as sidewalks) designated for pedestrians are available. They are > only allowed to walk on a road when designated paths either don't exist or > are some reason unusable (see Codice della strada, paragraph 190, clause 1). > I don't know about other countries, though.
Leaving aside the distance between the Codice and reality (the whole art. 190 makes me smile if I think of what happens every day on the roads :-) ), if you go on to comma 2 you'll notice that pedestrians may cross the road anywhere, if there's no crossing less than 100 m far. Also, art. 191 explicitly states that drivers must give way to pedestrians who already began to cross the road - which is often contradictory, as pedestrians *ought* to give way to drivers instead according to art. 190. So, yeah, you shouldn't walk on the road, but if you're on the road you've got a sort of "right of way". Which, again, is far less restrictive than foot=no. Also, for roads without separate sidewalks, pedestrians are allowed to walk "along the border of the carriageway". What should we do, add a footway that runs along the border of the street, tagging it so that we understand it's not a real sidewalk, but it's sort of a sidewalk, in that pedestrians *ought* to walk there, but it's an indefinite place, and also...? - you get what I mean. > Regards > Alberto Ciao, Simone _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
