On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> Sure, but the sidewalk attribute is essential for other, much more basic > use cases that separate ways fail to serve. > Can you elaborate on why separate ways fail to serve? > > > I don't think relations are the right answer either. It isn't easy to > > teach new people how to add relations. We should be able to identify > > footpaths adjacent to roads by their spatial characteristics. > > But we CAN'T, at least not in any reliable fashion. "Just draw a way > somewhere near the road and magic computers sort out the mess" is, > frankly, not a viable option. > > There has to be some explicit connection between sidewalks and their > roads. And as soon as you take this into account, the separate sidewalks > stop being newbie friendly at all. They only seem that way because you > pretend the main challenge does not exist. > Setting aside the newbie friendly issue, how do you map a crosswalk in the middle of a street? How do you map kerb slopes when the the slope is in the corner the intersection? I realize that both are possible, but the complexity of the tagging required increases significantly over a separate way. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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