Proposal:Continuous Sidewalk

A continuous sidewalk crossing (or blended crossing) is an intersection of a sidewalk and a crossroad where vehicles have to cross the sidewalk to continue.

Continuous sidewalk can have legal implication, for instance in France a car driver crossing a sidewalk must give way to others.

This page is a draft, please use and experiment.

Continuous sidewalk and continuous cycleway at the entrance of boulevard de Denain in Paris

How to tag

There are multiple features that can be tagged:

Junction

The easiest way to tag a continuous sidewalk is to use
continuous_sidewalk=yes

on the node marking the intersection between the road and the sidewalk.

This tag implies the layout of the junction (kerbs, traffic calming, continuous sidewalk surface, etc.) and the legal implication (e.g., give way) if any.

For more details mapping:

To tag the length of the continuous sidewalk you can use the same tag on the way of the road and the footway from the start to the end of the crossing.

Or use the combination:
highway=footway
footway=sidewalk
sidewalk=continuous

For junctions of a road and a cycleway where the cycleway is continuous use on the intersection node:
continuous_cycleway=yes
on the way:
highway=cycleway
cycleway=continuous

Examples

Ref	Image Example	What to tag	How to tag
N1		On road/footway intersection node only	Add continuous_sidewalk=yes on the intersection node between the sidewalk way and the road.
N2		Continuous cycleway on intersection node of a cycleway	Add continuous_sidewalk=yes on the intersection node between the cycleway and the road.
W1		On the way of the footway way	Add continuous_sidewalk=yes on the footway way making the intersection.
W2		Continuous cycleway on the cycleway way	Add continuous_sidewalk=yes on the cycleway way making the intersection.
W3		Continuous sidewalk on road way	Add continuous_sidewalk=yes on the road way making the intersection.

Traffic calming

One purpose of a continuous sidewalk is to slow car traffic for the safety of pedestrians. This can be map on the node or on the way (in the length of the bump) with:
traffic_calming=continuous_sidewalk

Use this tag only if there is a real traffic calming layout, if no kerbs and no elavation change, it should not be considered as such.

Don't use traffic_calming=table for continuous sidewalk, the layout is different.

Kerbs

Continuous sidewalk have no kerbs on the way of pedestrians but have kerbs on the way of vehicles. This can be tagged on nodes or ways with:
kerb=*|no|flush|lowered

And with laterelized version kerb:right=* and kerb:left=*

Examples

Example of this tag pattern can be found around this node this node.

See also

• sidewalk=*
• cycleway=*
• traffic_calming=*
• kerb=*