How to best map paths that don’t quite connect? I’ve included an example local to me below, as you can see the path doesn’t quite connect to the road, it’s seperated by about a meter of grass. Of course IRL it is perfectly walkable, and people regularly do. Should I connect the path to the road?:
Also on lock gates, how to best map them, and the paths over them, the two approached I have seen are to make a break in the waterway, or just add a “point”. Which is the best approach?
Don’t connect to the road.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lock
Both. The wiki page explains it quite well.
If people regularly use the path over the lock gate, then it’s totally fine to map it. The path should be connected to the road, otherwise it’s not usable for routing. The section on the grass can just be tagged with footway=link + surface=grass.
Alternatively the connection can also be mapped as
highway=path
informal=yes
surface=grass
When people regularly walk there as said above this should fit.
Thanks, I’ll mark as footway=link and informal=yes to be sure.
Thanks for the link to the locks article, I’ve redone them in accordance with what it says