[Tagging] Sidewalks vs Footways

[john at jfeldredge.com]

Collapsing the two tags into one seems reasonable, but there should continue to be a wiki page for whichever tag is discontinued, in order to direct people to the preferred tag.  "Sidewalk" is the standard term in the USA; from my reading, both "pavement" and "footway" seem to be standard usage in the UK.  I don't know what the standard terms are in other English-speaking countries.

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Subject :[Tagging] Sidewalks vs Footways
From  :mailto:emacsen at gmail.com
Date  :Thu Mar 17 09:15:48 America/Chicago 2011


There's an abandoned tag for sidewalks along the side of the road that
apparently has some use in the UK:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Footway

http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Great_britain/En/tags.html

And there's a nearly identical tag proposal called Sidewalk:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sidewalk

I'd like to suggest collapsing these two tags into a unified tag and
making a final vote, and then fixing tags as necessary.

Thoughts?

- Serge

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