2015-11-25 22:18 GMT+01:00 Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk>: > > People with vision impairments or wheelchairs can't - so directing > > them to crosswalks with kerb cuts/slopes and assisted signals > > (sounds, etc) sounds like the proper thing to do. > > I agree, but it should not be done at the expense of pedestrian > mapping. > > Using the existing style of highway attributes should be the way to > achieve this, not adding parallel ways which do not exist on the > ground. >
the sidewalks/pavements DO exist on the ground. Adding tags to the main highway way / street (i.e. splitting for everything) becomes unhandy as soon as you add a lot of details (extreme fragmentation of the main highway way), and it is unsuitable for things like maxspeed on the pavement/cycleway, surface, geometric details (shape) of the pavement, things on the pavement like bollards, width reductions, etc. > > We should not be changing the database just because the existing system > is too comlicated for new mappers. I'm not sure if the current system is too complicated, but if I were convinced it was and there was a simpler solution for the same problem, I'd not hesitate to change the current system. Cheers, Martin
_______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
