[Accessibility] Best way to map sidewalks ?

[pierrick pratter]

Hi,

I'm confuse on the way to add sidewalk data in OSM, it seems that there is two distinct way of mapping them as they are complementary and one should not be wildly used over the other.

For me the logical and easier way (and maybe easier for routing systems too) is to add the sidewalk tag on the road and if the sidewalk differ or is blocked by a obstacle that is not meant to be cross, I draw the sidewalk and tag it with footway=sidewalk but it is rare as almost all sidewalk in my country (FR) are part of the road.

So I wanted to have feedback from day to day users of tools that use each kind of mapping and also from developer of those tools, to know in the end which way is the best.

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