Martijn van Exel wrote: > A sidewalk is not a lane and it should not be tagged as such. Doing so > would be utterly confusing. Does the lanes proposal (which I think is > horribly overwrought to begin with) not exclude sidewalks?
Not explicitly. And while it is true that the examples don't include sidewalks, they do include cycleways, where we have basically the same debate whether or not they should be separate ways. Anyway, I see no reason to exclude sidewalks here. No matter whether you think of a sidewalk when you hear the word "lane", the requirements are the same as for other "stripes" of the highway: They run parallel to the highway centreline, you want to define their relative ordering, they share properties of the highway such as its name, but you also want to be able to add tags to them individually sometimes. A sidewalk=left/right/both fails when you want to define the relative ordering, and separate footway=cycleway fail in practice because no renderer is actually able to puzzle the highway back together from unconnected parallel ways. Tobias _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
