<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Thomas,<br><br></div><div>There are countries where living_street is part of the legislation concerning traffic (regulations). They are not merely places where pedestrians have priority over motor vehicles. There are also max speed limits (in Belgium 20km/h) for these zones. There are also a few other consequences. I don't own a car, don't know them by heart. And then there is the city that has to make them look different, different sort of pavement, flower 'pots' so the cars have to zigzag, no explicit pedestrian zebra crossings.<br><br>That's what this tag was created for and that is its meaning, its full meaning.<br><br></div><div>To use it now for streets where you risk being assaulted if you don't give priority to pedestrians is not wat is was intended for, hence the need for a separate tag.<br><br></div><div>That all the streets which were tagged in error need to be retagged is not an argument for not attempting to fix the wrong use of that tag. Even when there are lots of them.<br><br></div><div>It's not even very hard to find the wrongly tagged ones and retag them once a proper tag has been created. Hurray for Overpass API.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Polyglot<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-27 8:40 GMT+01:00 malenki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm_@malenki.ch" target="_blank">osm_@malenki.ch</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:23:59 +0100,<br>
Jo wrote:<br>
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> I would say that even though they quack almost exactly the same, they<br>
> are still different kinds of ducks. The best way to proceed is to<br>
> create a specific tag for them and you can even ask to have it<br>
> rendered almost exactly the same as the official living streets.<br>
<br>
</span>Would you please explain why you think a new tag may be useful?<br>
<br>
For my part I disagree with you.<br>
The streets Jaakoo described match more or less the description of a<br>
living_street (or maybe even highway=pedestrian) maybe with lacking a<br>
paved surface.<br>
I consider it less than useful to create a new tag with the long tail<br>
of adding it to all data consumers like renderers and apps just because<br>
there are countries where living streets don't exist in the legislation<br>
but in reality.<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Thomas<br>
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