Legally and practically, all roads are open to pedestrians unless there is a specific prohibition. Walking is considered a basic right, and practically it is difficult to stop people from walking anywhere.<br><br>Motorways are the only exception in most countries.<br><br>In rural parts of the USA even motorways are often legally accessible to bicycles and in foot; eg Interstate 8 east of San Diego, and both interstate freeways in Oregon (except in the city of Portland and in Medford) allow people on bicycles and on foot<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:43 PM Tobias Zwick <<a href="mailto:osm@westnordost.de">osm@westnordost.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">With this information given, the question is, whether<br>
<br>
highway=residential + sidewalk=no<br>
<br>
implies a<br>
<br>
foot=yes<br>
<br>
. And with implies, I mean, that it is considered *duplicate<br>
information* if this is tagged. Note that This is different to an<br>
unspecified information which can with relative certainty be assumed (by<br>
data consumers) to be X. ( See also<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete/FAQ#Why_does_StreetComplete_often_tag_the_absence_of_features.3F" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete/FAQ#Why_does_StreetComplete_often_tag_the_absence_of_features.3F</a>)<br>
<br>
I am unsure about this myself, it's certainly not mentioned in the wiki,<br>
but that doesn't have to mean anything.<br>
<br>
What do you think?<br>
<br>
Tobias<br>
<br>
On 14/02/2019 14:25, Tobias Zwick wrote:<br>
> Yes, there is a new quest in v10, which tags foot=yes/no. It is no<br>
> problem to make changes on it, but let me first provide some information<br>
> on it first, so we have a common basis to discuss:<br>
> <br>
> For any street that has been tagged as having no sidewalk, the<br>
> StreetComplete asks the surveyor:<br>
> <br>
> "Is this street accessible for pedestrians here?<br>
> <br>
> This street was tagged as having no sidewalk on either side. So, the<br>
> street is only accessible on foot if people may walk on the street<br>
> itself or there is enough space to walk beside it."<br>
> <br>
> When the surveyor answers "yes", foot=yes is tagged.<br>
> <br>
> The rationale behind collecting this information is, that if a street is<br>
> explicitly surveyed as having no sidewalk, it is no longer implicated<br>
> that naturally the street is accessible on foot (foot=yes). Roads<br>
> explicitly signed as motorroads are not the only roads that are not<br>
> accessible on foot.<br>
> <br>
> And this is an important information for pedestrian routers and maybe a<br>
> useful information for car routers (because they might want to prefer<br>
> routes without the sidewalk=no + foot=yes combination).<br>
> <br>
> Tobias<br>
> <br>
> On 14/02/2019 10:26, Florian Lohoff wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>> i am seeing a growing number of changesets setting foot=yes<br>
>> on all kinds of roads e.g. residential<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/403719315" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/403719315</a><br>
>><br>
>> Commit message is:<br>
>><br>
>> "Add whether roads are accessible for pedestrians"<br>
>><br>
>> All residentials are accessible to pedestrians so i a bit puzzled<br>
>> what this challenge is good for. It just adds redundant tags to<br>
>> all roads.<br>
>><br>
>> Flo<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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