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I suppose there could be something tricky going on, but that just looks like normal concrete with 'joints' that have been cut or cast into it after it has been poured in situ. I think the concrete plate tag is for pre-cast bits that are made somewhere else and then brought in and dropped in place.
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Right, okay, that's the way I interpreted it too. Thanks!
One is a ramp, concrete sidewalk and asphalt ramp, two is flush, all concrete with a textured plastic plate for the vision impaired.
I would say neither of those bus stops are lit, in my mind the shelter should provide the lighting but I could be wrong.
Yeah, my original interpretation of lit matched that. I have seen bus shelters with lights in my life, and this isn't one of those.
But the wiki makes it sound a bit more vague, even saying a footway lit by the glow of a nearby billboard is lit. But at that seems a bit... useless to me? Since basically anything within a city that isn't a forest will be lit by some kind of glow.
So that's what made me wonder if this tag really is effectively meant to indicate full darkness, essentially?
@psycotica0 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:kerb
Only use flush
if the transition would not be apparent to a blind person. Less than 3cm of curb. If a cane would catch the curb, it should be tagged as lowered
.
StreetComplete's "curb ramp" option gives the curb the lowered
tag, making it the same as if you picked the "a bit higher than road surface" option.
@psycotica0 concrete:plates
are pre-formed chunks that can be moved into place. concrete
is poured in-place, and is the correct value for sidewalks. I have never seen any actual concrete:plates
in use in real life, but SC users are tagging it all the time. They should honestly make the difference more clear in the app.
As for lit
tags, I turned those off because I didn't want to overthink it.
Yeah, I think the image for concrete plates in the app is from the wiki, and is kinda unclear because it's some rectangles of concrete. And I'm looking down and what I'm seeing is a series of rectangles made of concrete. I agree, though, with that in mind I feel like the app could benefit from some guidance there to say "concrete, perhaps with joints, such as for sidewalks" or "concrete plates, precast elsewhere and installed. Rarely used" or something. Just a bit of a nudge in the right direction.
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I think the key feature of the picture on the wiki is that they have visible lift points near the corners.
In some of the pictures they have been filled, but in others they haven't.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Bypass_road_made_of_big_concrete_plates.jpg