[OSM-newbies] pedestrian or footway?

[Cartinus]

On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:13:52 Paul Johnson wrote:
> I believe them to be culturally equivallent

But they really are not.

A bicycle boulevard is designed as a through route for something: bicycles.

A living streets on the other hand is not designed as a through route for 
anything at all, not even pedestrians. The pedestrians it "protects" are not 
people going some distance, but kids playing in the street and people walking 
from their parked car to the front door of their house. Just look at the 
traffic sign used for living streets: 
<http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Nederlands_verkeersbord_G5.svg>

If you want to look at something in the US that has the same function (but not 
the same traffic rules) as a European living street, then it would be all 
those suburban cul-de-sacs.

If there is nothing in the US that has the same function and traffic rules as 
a European living street, then don't tag anything as one.

For a bicycle boulevard tags like highway=cycleroad or 
highway=residential+cycleway=cyclestreet far better describe what it is.

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus