I’m just going to leave these two links here, because they’re worth reading in conjunction with this one:
I was wondering how to tag situation when sidewalk is technically present, but is unusable at all times.
Things like this:
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I don’t want to tag it as sidewalk:both=yes as while it was technically built as one (in times past, where the car was a rarity), it is unusable as a sidewalk at all times nowadays (this picture is taken when it is less crowded), so routers would try to get pedestrians there to their detriment
I don’t want to tag is as amenity=parking, as, although it…
Hello folks. In some countries, but particularly South America I think, on the side of the street there exists a semi-formal space where people can walk to avoid cars, which also forms the periphery of private property with many ramps into the garages of private residences. Most people elect to walk on the street because it is more comfortable, and then walk in this strip of space during moments of heavy traffic which is expected. To my knowledge there is not a good way to represent this with cu…
What’s clear to me from all these discussions is that we are lacking a system for tagging poor pedestrian infrastructure, like the one we have for cycling infrastructure, from shared_lane and lane to track, etc.
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