On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 19:50 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 4/11/2012 7:17 PM, Philip Barnes wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 13:28 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> On 4/11/2012 4:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > >>> If sidewalks were tagged without the highway tag, routing would > >>> continue to work like it does for everybody > >> > >> Except when a motorway has a sidewalk. > > Do motorways ever have a sidewalk? Sometimes a footpath/cycle track > > follows the motorway, and often there are footpath/cycle tracks where > > motorway bridges cross estuarys, but they are separate ways. > > What are you asking? A sidewalk is almost always a separate physical way > (if not, it's a shoulder, except on minor urban streets with flush > sidewalks and no curb).
In the Netherlands I have sometimes seen cycleways paralleling motorways, some 20-30 metres away, and on long estuary bridges there is often a cycleway but beyond that motorways never have a sidewalk. The term motorway implies a lot of rules, No Pedestrians. No Cyclists. No Learner Drivers. No Tracked Vehicles. No Agricultural Vehicles. No Motorcycles under 50cc. Horses Mobility Scooters Phil _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
