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<p>Venice situation is unusual but not unique and in other contexts
different tagging schemes have been used, not limited by the
footway/pedestrian alternative.</p>
<p>As an example see how this road in Mackinac Island (<i>no motor
vehicles there...</i>) is tagged:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17874338">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17874338</a></p>
<p>I've seen others too, but OTOMH I can't remember where, probably
France (<i>possibly St. Malo...</i>) and/or Netherland, but by
Googling for "pedestrian town/city" and then checking on OSM,
several pops up...<br>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Sergio</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-02-26 15:30, Martin
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Di., 26. Feb. 2019 um
14:40 Uhr schrieb Sergio Manzi <<a
href="mailto:smz@smz.it" moz-do-not-send="true">smz@smz.it</a>>:<br>
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">... and not only
cycleways: have a look here, where I live: <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.4364/12.3334"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.4364/12.3334</a><br>
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All are "highway=pedestrian", at the same level, but
believe me: they are not!</blockquote>
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<div>Venice is a globally unique (or maybe almost unique)
exception anyway, but what we currently have there is the
result of people reclassifying all the footways as
pedestrian roads, even if they are 50 cm wide. I have
started in the past several attempts to open a discussion on
this, but it felt like Don Quixote. See this as an example:
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href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/488627565/history"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/488627565/history</a>
I have surveyed it myself, like many others, where I began
to reclassify the very narrow footpaths from pedestrian to
footway, but I am not local and people destroy the finer
grained distinction of footway and pedestrian as soon as you
add them, I guess they do not want the red dots. It is
unfortunate, because it makes the Venice map much harder to
read and less useful. If you are local, please try to
improve the situation, we do not need new tags, it would be
sufficient to apply the existing ones consistently rather
than indiscriminately.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Martin</div>
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