OpenGeofiction
Hi there,
Due to some OSM research, it just became clear to me that I possibly overused footways a lot in my cities…
I extensively use footways as “real” footways. However, It seems that in the OSM commuity, this is really uncommon. Footways seem only to be used if they are not situated directly alongside a road.
What do you think? Is my way of using footways totally wrong and I should delete them? Or is this usage tolerable?
Greetings, Markus
Discussion
Comment from superleaf1995 on 26 October 2017 at 21:59
great work with that buildings!, also i think is you descision, BUT without footways seems more real (OSM/OGF Style), but as i sayed IS YOU DESCISION
Comment from Eevee on 26 October 2017 at 23:20
For example Helsinki is full of real footways in OSM. I think you can decide, how you like to map. I think many places don’t have footways mapped because major things are mapped first and people assume that the footways exist anyway.
Personally, I have decided to map footways.
Eevee
Comment from zhenkang on 27 October 2017 at 01:48
It depends. People don’t mind.
Comment from AndreJOMO on 27 October 2017 at 02:53
It looks cool. You dont have to add foot ways. But its completely your descision on how to design your city.
Comment from Rustem Pasha on 27 October 2017 at 08:18
In some places around the real world the footways are mapped as real footways. I do not think it depends on strict rules, rather by the level of details of entire map.
For example here in OGF I do not map footways when I map at “satisfactory” level of details (that is how I call that) except for places where footways are not directly near the roads (parks, gardens, train stations) but when I want to map something in “high” level of details (with buildings, trees and all that stuff) I map every single footway. It is your choice.
Comment from EMKLI on 27 October 2017 at 08:45
Thanks for all your answers. I thought about leaving roadisde footways out in the future and add them when I dig deeper into detail. However, I recognized that adding them in one step with “block designations” (e.g. landuse=residential between block forming roads) is not much more work because I duplicate the lines anyway and add crosspoints with SHIFT+I, so mostly, simply one more duplication is needed. So I think I will continue with mapping them.