Are we just talking about using "sidewalk" as indicated in the linked proposals? I've been mapping "sidewalks" in residential areas near me as individual ways; they usually run parallel to the road, but oftentimes are offset by a variable distance, plus I'd like to have very accurate routing. I've been tagging these as highway=footway, however when a way no longer parallels a road (and for my local area the surface almost always changes from concrete to asphalt) and goes into wooded areas, I start tagging the ways as highway=path.
If the term sidewalk is used for this proposal would it make sense to also apply it to individual ways? However I'm not sure if anything is gained in doing so... -Josh On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Simone Saviolo <simone.savi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/3/17 Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de> >> >> Hi. >> I'm from Germany, and therefore not argumenting with the English language, >> but "footway" is a more general term as distinct ways for people moving by >> foot are "footways", too. >> Ways along or part of a street with main purpose of often motorized >> vehicles - a indication for that is, that cars are located in the middle and >> therefore with less crossings than pedestrians - should be distinguished >> from standalone footways. Therefore I would prefer "sidewalk" or "pavement". >> Of these, sidewalk for me is more self explaining than pavement. >> I'm good enough speaking English to know even the word pavement - but that >> the way, where you walk along a street on one side is called sidewalk is >> better to understand even if the vocabulary is not known in particular. >> >> Thus I would prefer (and I even used it in the past) sidewalk as a tag for >> - well - sidewalks. > > I agree with Peter. In Italy we use "highway=footway" for ways that have > been designed for pedestrians, as opposed to "regular" streets that are > closed to motorized traffic that we tag with "highway=pedestrian". While it > may be the case that some sidewalks have been tagged as footways, I think > the two concepts should be kept separate. It seems to me that there are > substantial differences between a sidewalk and a paved path through a park, > for example. > >> >> regards >> Peter > > Regards, > Simone > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
