On 03/09/17 12:20, Selfish Seahorse wrote:
As you might have noticed, there are several ways to map a sidewalk. Either as a as refinement to a highway or as a separate way. These are facts:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sidewalk
So, instead of "solving a problem" by deleting an existing sidewalk and adding a tag to the street, you could as well have fixed the wrong or missing tags and leave the sidewalk.
Yes, I know perfectly well. As you wrote: either ... or, but not both of it. I'm wondering how you fix a road tagged with sidewalk=* plus a separate parallel sidewalk without deleting anything?
I would assume that the additional sidewalk tag was left over from when the sidewalk was not mapped as a separate way (the usual from simple to detailed). I would assume that at least someone thought the sidewalk qualifies for being mapped separately. If I think he did too much (I stumbled once over such a case) I reach out to the mapper.
Michael