[OSM-newbies] Streets closed to vehicle traffic

[Simone Cortesi]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Chris Mcnally<chris.mcnally at pobox.com> wrote:

> Around the Financial district in Lower Manhattan, New York, many of the
> former streets have become pedestrian only ways, at least for a portion
> of them. Wall Street, for example, has sections that are pedestrian
> only.  I've split the ways and labeled them highway=footway. Is this the
> proper way to tag the ways?

Last month, while I was in NYC, I've noticed that there are many road
changes, mainly around Broadway, the tiny squares it encounters are
being transformed in to little pedestrian squares.

Are you taking care of them as well?

Have a look at the tag page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpedestrian

-S