I am coming back to a topic we had some time ago: sidewalks. According to this page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:footway%3Dsidewalk
sidewalks should be tagged with highway=footway footway=sidewalk While I agree that for complex situations it is helpful to have dedicated geometry in OSM, I fail to understand why this should be tagged "highway=*". Usually a distinct highway should be drawn only in the case of a separated carriageway. The suggested tagging is IMHO "tagging for the renderer". For tagging sidewalks it would be sufficent to tag them with footway=sidewalk without the highway-tag. In analogy to this tagging we would optionally be mapping an ordinary street as dual carriageway and tag each with highway=residential, oneway=yes, residential=lane. New tags should be constructed in a way that doesn't change the meaning of existing tags, but only adds detail to the existing meaning in the case of a suggested tag-combination. In the case of sidewalks dataconsumers that don't evaluate the footway=sidewalk tag will get those highway=footway, which are tagged like this, wrong. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
