Changeset: 62186746
Added sidewalk info
Closed by HollowHue
Tags
changesets_count | 66 |
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created_by | iD 2.11.1 |
host | https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit |
ideditor:walkthrough_progress | welcome;point;area |
ideditor:walkthrough_started | yes |
imagery_used | Bing aerial imagery |
locale | en-US |
Discussion
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Comment from Nakaner
Hi,
welcome to OpenStreetMap.
I appreciate your effort on adding important details for pedestrians. It is a lot of work but it can be helpful for pedestrians
However, the sidewalks you added are currently only useful as eye-candy. They cannot be/are not used by routing software at the moment because they are not connected to the road network on this continent. In addition, pedestrians could not even change the side of a street at an intersection because there is no connection between them. This leads to the situation that pedestrians are caught in a often circular island circumfenced by streets they are unable to leave.
Could you please improve your sidewalks? There are two options:
(1) Add the missing connections at all intersections, add intersection nodes whereever any other street crosses the sidewalk. Please don't forget to map the crossing nodes (highway=crossing + crossing=*) and don't forget to add footway=sidewalk to all sidewalks. Look at Graz, Austria or any other well mapped city as an example (e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/47.58560/-122.30852).
(2) Delete all the sidewalks and just add sidewalk=* to the street. Use sidewalk=left if there is only a sidewalk on the left side, sidewalk=rigth if it is only on the right side, sidewalk=both if both sidewalks exist and sidewalk=none if no sidewalks exist. Please note that the sidewalk=* tag is not used by almost all map styles, i.e. many OSM based maps won't show them any more. However, it is in the data and I suspect that there are applications using it.
It would be a real pity if all your sidewalks would lie around in the database without anyone being able to use them properly.
Best regards
Michael
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Comment from Nakaner
Hi HollowHue,
I asked you three days ago to fix all the mistakes of the sidewalks you added to OSM. However, you continue editing but don't care for the your edits.
I would like to ask you to fix these issues before you do any other edits.
If you have any questions or if my explanations are not as helpful as necessary, don't hestitate to ask me.
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Best regards
Michael
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