>The rationale behind collecting this information is, that if a street >is >explicitly surveyed as having no sidewalk, it is no longer implicated >that naturally the street is accessible on foot (foot=yes). Roads >explicitly signed as motorroads are not the only roads that are not >accessible on foot. > >And this is an important information for pedestrian routers and maybe a >useful information for car routers (because they might want to prefer >routes without the sidewalk=no + foot=yes
First, thanks for all the effort put into "StreetComplete". I really like the app and frequently use it. Concerning the new task, I think the rationale to explicitly map highways that are actually accessible to pedestrians is laudable. But the approach chosen here may be inaccurate as it mixes the legal and the physical realities. The legal situation is already represented by the default OSM setting, considering all highways as "foot=yes" except some like motorways or those explicitly marked as "foot=no". Although walking on a street may be allowed, it may however be unpleasant or even unsafe to really do so. But this physical reality should, IMHO, be reflected in a separate (afaik still non-existant) tag, like "walkable=1-3" or so. This could then be taken into account by routers when calculating alternative routes between to points. But that certainly goes beyond this thread. I would, in consequence, support the deactivation of the task in its current form. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
