text: The "incomplete" sidewalks are actually a fairly accurate reflection of where sidewalks exist around here (though still in progress). They do stop and start apparently randomly around this urban neighborhood. And although I realize there are two schools of thought on this, I firmly believe that in urban areas, explicitly mapped sidewalks, crossings, etc, are a benefit to pedestrians and handicapped persons who simply want to look at the carto map and plan an outing. OSM is not solely for vehicle traffic nor solely for the use of routing engines. The Wiki documents tags for sidewalk mapping, and JOSM supports it. Until there's a concensus for something different, I'm going to continue to map sidewalks this way, like many other mappers. If you think otherwise, I suggest you raise the question (again) on the discussion lists.