[Tagging] Sidewalks and cycleways as tags vs as extra lines

["Christian Müller"]

> Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Januar 2018 um 14:00 Uhr
> Von: "Andy Townsend" <ajt1047 at gmail.com>
> An: tagging at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [Tagging] Sidewalks and cycleways as tags vs as extra lines
>
> "replacing" sidewalk=* with e.g. sidewalk:left=* is not a good idea 
> since there are 1,186,931 existing objects.  For comparison 
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sidewalk%3Aleft shows only 504 uses.

This was not meant to suggest an automated edit, and in my mind
labeling a tag "deprecated" does not mean that it will cease any-
time soon within the osm realm.

But then you're right, the suffixes :left and :right may also be
represented in the tag value.  Especially so, if they are not en-
tangled with values of another class of information there (like
practiced with the cycleway values currently).


Greetings
cm