Mapping separated footways or cycleways along central street as one tagged line versus mutiple lines

[balchen]

@SomeoneElse

Merely repeating “I am right and everyone else is wrong” will not convince anyone of your arguments.

That’s not what he’s saying. He says “I’ve given the argument and the evidence in support of my argument. Everyone else just says no.”

And based on this thread alone, I agree. No one has argued why these segments can’t be mapped using two lines if one so pleases to put in the effort.

Some have stated that paint is not enough separation. The photos clearly show different surfaces and physical demarcation. There’s also the statement that only a difference in elevation will suffice. Why?

Like I’ve said before:

@balchen

But of course the overall point was that of separate lines not being synonymous with impassable physical separation.

This is done on carriageways all the time here. We also do it on cycleways when the paint is based on a legal separation and not merely a suggestion – exactly like for carriageways.

I think this sums it up quite nicely:

@Nadjita

The only thing that is consensus is that if 2 lanes are physically separated, then they should be mapped with 2 separate ways. Physical separation in OSM does not include paint.

The consensus doesn’t say anything about when to map 2 non-physically separated lanes as separate ways, so this is up to the mapper’s discretion. There are cases where it makes sense to map them separately, and there are cases, where it doesn’t.