[OSM-newbies] pedestrian or footway?

[Charlotte Wolter]

As I read it, "living street" implies that cars 
use it at times. However, these "streets" have no access for automobiles.

--C


At 02:33 PM 11/8/2009, you wrote:
>What about the living_street tag?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
>Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:24:04
>To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] pedestrian or footway?
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>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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