On Tue Nov 24 13:40:38 2015 GMT, Marc Gemis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > > > > Sidewalks, unless they are physically separated in some way are an > > integral part of the highway. Sidewalk tags can allow a router to, maybe > > prefer, roads with sidewalks but there a lot of cases where this would > > just be plain annoying. A pedestrian simply needs to be told to follow > > the road, they are quite capable of deciding which side to walk, where > > to cross and whether it is simply easier to walk on the road. > > > > > Then we do not have an answer for Clifford's original question: how do > you tag sidewalk characteristics for wheelchair users: such as kerb, > slope, width, surface ? Especially when tagging is done by novices ? > I was thinking that, not easy but important. We do need to do this, just not so that it breaks normal pedestrian routing.
I guess the things that need mapping are: drop kerbs - Probably a highway node, sidewalk:drop_kerb=left/right/both. We will need to map driveway drop kerbs too as these will be crossing point too. width - very important as many sidewalks are singlefile for walking. sidewalk:left:width=0.6, or 1.5 etc kerb height - Again important, different heights are barriers for different people, different wheelchairs. sidewalk:left:kerb_height=10 cm. Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
