[Tagging] Sidewalks vs Footways

[SomeoneElse]

On 17/03/2011 14:15, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> I'd like to suggest collapsing these two tags into a unified tag and
> making a final vote, and then fixing tags as necessary.
>
>
I'd be happy to use whichever tag has the wider acceptance.  All the 
footway=left/right/both that I've added have been "sidewalks" in the 
American sense, so if another name is chosen I'd be happy for mine to be 
changed via a bot (once anyone consuming the data has had a chance to 
incorporate the change of course).  Some of the values associated with 
the footway tag in the UK probably need manual checking though (e.g. 
field_edge).

Using "sidewalk" would have the advantage of not potentially being 
further description of "highway=footway" (as in "highway=footway; 
footway=field_edge").

Cheers,
Andy