Openstreetmap

OC by @EfreetSK@lemmy.world

You may say this is basic or this is really nitpicking or micro mapping. But this is something that bothers me for a long time. So I'm currently mapping sidewalks in my village and according to this

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Guidelines_for_pedestrian_navigation#Sidewalks_and_crossings

What I should do, is to separate sidewalks from pedestrian crossings - so top and left of the blue dot is a pedestrian crossing and bottom and right is a sidewalk. Got it.

Now things start to be complicated (at least in my head) when StreetComplete starts asking me for the surface of that crossing. An example:

Now my mind starts to go to crazy and I'm not sure which option is correct:

1. Set the surface of that pedestrian crossing to paving_stones since that's the actual surface of that path. The fact that it crosses the asphalt road doesn't matter as that's the surface of the road

2. Split the pedestrian crossing into 3 parts, set their surface accordingly so paving_stones, asphalt, paving_sones. But all are still pedestrian crossings.

3. Split the pedestrian crossing to 3 parts, set only middle of that to be the pedestrian crossing as that's the actual crossing, set the other parts to be a sidewalk. Set surfaces accordingly

4. Similar to 3., split the pedestrian crossing into 3 parts, set only middle of that to be the pedestrian crossing as that's the actual crossing, set the other parts to be footways (so no sidewalks), since those are just separate footways connecting the sidewalk and the crossing. Set surfaces accordingly

All of those have some logic in my mind but I won't go to details as it'd be very long post. But I guess the number 2. is correct? Although I then start wondering what to do in case the sidewalk is right next to the road? Just setting it to asphalt?

Anyway, please help me bring peace to my mind - which one is correct?

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