[OSM-newbies] pedestrian or footway?

[Charlotte Wolter]

Actually, Ivan, they never were automobile streets. These were 
designed to be pedestrian by Abbott Kinney, the visionary who created 
Venice, with its canals and walk streets, as a tribute to the Venice 
of Italy. Cars were relegated to alleys and main streets.

--C

At 02:24 PM 11/8/2009, you wrote:
>El Domingo, 8 de Noviembre de 2009, Charlotte Wolter escribi=C3=B3:
> >          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=20
>it's paved and wide and flat enough for emergency vehicles to go through.
>
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