Improving the Wiki documentation of barrier=kerb and kerb=*

[osmuser63783]

Thanks for your comments.

@Nadjita

How exactly did you come to these 5 meanings? Is this what you observed when mapping, or what you could come up with as possible meanings?

Sorry I should have been clearer. I came across all of them in Overpass when I was trying to understand how to map kerbs.

@Nadjita

I don’t think that’s correct to assume. Back when there was no barrier=kerb, people would just use kerb=lowered on any highway to mark the location of the kerb you had to cross. Usually only lowered kerbs, of course. If you wanted to say the sidewalk had lowered kerbs, I did sidewalk:both:kerb=lowered. Everything else seems odd. I wouldn’t add this to the wiki and I wouldn’t encourage mapping kerb=lowered to mean that the kerbs left and right of the road are lowered kerbs.

There are 12,614 examples of kerb=* without barrier=kerb that are on roads: Overpass query I don’t think people meant to say that there is a barrier=kerb on the road that cars have to drive over (I’m not counting service roads here, for driveways this may be common in some places). I’m not trying to encourage anything, just documenting. Could add a warning that this usage is controversial? Have a look also at my previous thread on the topic.