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
Reäksje fan Hjart op 20 maaie 2016 om 06.39 oere
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).
Reäksje fan ghost_07 op 20 maaie 2016 om 09.59 oere
Good note, thank you!
Reäksje fan woodpeck op 22 maaie 2016 om 00.16 oere
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.