[OSM-newbies] pedestrian or footway?

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Domingo, 8 de Noviembre de 2009, Charlotte Wolter escribió:
>          I was busily converting these from "residential street" to
> "pedestrian," when I came across work by someone else who was using
> "footway." Which do you think is correct?

Welcome to the tagging wars.

IMHO, it's a pedestrian highway if it *was* a street in which cars passed, or 
it's paved and wide and flat enough for emergency vehicles to go through.

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