[Tagging] sidewalk=* or footway=*

[fly]

Sorry, was talking about the RFC discussion on this list [6] but your
link or better gmane.org [7] as threads are better listed is the
starting point.

The discussion at the same time about sidewalk as separate ways might be
also interesting.

cu fly

[6] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.tagging/7106
[7] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.tagging/7051

Am 20.01.2015 um 13:55 schrieb Hubert:
> Thanks for the quick response.
> Sadly the discussion page wasn't much help. But I think I found the right thread on the mailing list (though I haven't read it yet):
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-March/007023.html

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fly [mailto:lowflight66 at googlemail.com]
>> Sent: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2015 01:05
>> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools
>> Subject: Re: [Tagging] sidewalk=* or footway=*
>>
>> Please have a look into the archive of this list and the discussion of
>> the sidewalk proposal.
>>
>> It was designed to replace footway=both/left/right/none but transition
>> is slow.
>>
>> JOSM just introduced a validator warning offering an automatic change.
>>
>> Speaking for myself, I did not care to change a whole city and with
>> your mentioned numbers a well-designed software will still look for
>> both tags.
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 19.01.2015 um 16:44 schrieb Hubert:
>>> Hallo,
>>>
>>> I am working on some ideas for a proposal[1]to double represent
>>> cycletracksand footways.It is at the very beginning  at the moment
>> and
>>> I haven’tmade upmy mindabout how to do that.
>>>
>>> While I was researchingdifferentstuff, I noticed that the proposals
>> to
>>> footway=*[2]and sidewalk=*[3] haven’t been voted on.Yet, it sais“Do
>>> not use*******footway*=*on other
>>>
>> than___highway_<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=___foo
>>> tway_<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway>”in
>>> a warning box ontheKey:footway wiki page [4].It appears that this box
>>> has been added by a user only3 days after posting a comment on
>>> thediscussionpage. [5]
>>>
>>> Also aoverpass query[1]as of2015-01-14 has return around 40.000 uses
>>> offootway=*on highway=*roads*only, excludinghw=footway/cycleway/path.
>>> Howeverthere are500.000 usesof sidewalk=*.While this shows a majority
>>> usefor sidewalk=*, I can’t seewhy
>>> footway=* should bedeprecatedfor *roads*nor did I find arelated
>>> discussion about this.
>>>
>>> Could someone point meinthe right directionformore information on
>> that
>>> topic?
>>>
>>> Yours
>>>
>>> Hubert
>>>
>>>
>> [1]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Hubert87/DoubleRepresent
>>>
>> atio____n_<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Hubert87/DoubleRepr
>>> esentation>
>>>
>>> [2]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_
>>>
>>> [3]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Footway_
>>>
>>> [4]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:footway_
>>>
>>> [5]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:footway_