Hi all,
I can see a lot of places on the map in the cities, where there are one way roads, but no sidewalks set. That leads to incorrect pedestrian and bicycle routing in http://openrouteservice.org, osrm, and other navigational software. So please, don’t hesitate drawing ways marked as highway=footway + footway=sidewalk along streets (of course where sidewalks actually exist). I already started doing it in russian cities Moscow and Tula.
Together we’ll create the best map!
Thanks!
Discussion
Kommentti käyttäjältä Hjart 20. May 2016 klo 06.39
As far as I’m aware most pedestrian routing ignores oneway on highway=* that are not footway or cycleway.
Also note osm.wiki/Key:oneway#Sub_keys_.2F_exceptions.
Do also note that osm.wiki/Sidewalks#Sidewalk_as_refinement_to_a_highway is often a much better solution than complex networks of separately drawn sidewalks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle).
Kommentti käyttäjältä ghost_07 20. May 2016 klo 09.59
Good note, thank you!
Kommentti käyttäjältä woodpeck 22. May 2016 klo 00.16
I’d like to point out that better pedestrian routing is possible without drawing footways individually; see http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=356 and the (sadly, German) Bachelor thesis linked from there. This is about a piece of software that generates a pedestrian routing graph from OSM data, by synthesizing pavements/sidewalks as individual edges. Pedestrians will therefore not be routed along the road centreline, but along the left or right side.