>  the pragmatic solution is to create a highway=* *=link section at this
point.

I'd then ask what the criteria for deciding to add (or not) a link is:

Do we add a link every time a side route joins the pavement, or even every
few hundred meters, in case a user wants their router to tell that they
could walk over the kerb?
Do we only add them when someone spots a case where their route is less
than optimal (like this email thread), which feels like it may fall foul of
"don't tag for the router/renderer/..."?
Should we *not* add such links in regions like the US, where it may be
illegal for a pedestrian to try and enter/cross a highway other than at a
marked crossing?

Cheers,
Daniel



On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 11:35, Marc via Tagging <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The problem is that mapping the sidewalk separately means losing the
> ability to switch from the pedestrian "lane" to the car lane.
> Apart from thinking of a schema to indicate whether or not it is possible
> to switch from one to the other along the entire length, the pragmatic
> solution is to create a highway=* *=link section at this point.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
> De : Michael Tsang <[email protected]>
> À : tagg >> Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <
> [email protected]>
> Objet : [Tagging] Pavements that is separated from the carriageway only by
> a kerb
> Date : 17/08/2025 20:13:57 Europe/Paris
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am having a problem at a place where my router is overestimating the
> cycle time required for my journey, leading to bad results by default.
>
> The problem is here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4560492277
>
> When I alight from a train with my bike and want to cycle north-west after
> exiting the station at the specified node, in the real world I would push
> my bike through the kerb onto the carriageway and start riding. However,
> the mapping doesn't indicate that I can do so, so the router think that I
> would need to either push the bike along the pavement to the next junction,
> or use the signalised crossing to get to the carriageway. This has resulted
> in it overestimating my bike time by about 2 minutes.
>
> What is the correct mapping here to indicate that I can push my bike to
> the carriageway and mount it?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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