[Tagging] StreetComplete 10 / foot=yes on residential

[Tobias Zwick]

I agree that it would make sense to not ask whether a road has a
sidewalk outside of built-up areas because in most cases, it will have
no sidewalks.

Regrettably, whether a road is in a built-up area or outside is not an
information that is recorded in OSM.

Tobias

On 14/02/2019 18:23, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> On 14. Feb 2019, at 16:05, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
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>> But in Ireland (& I think UK), all public roads except motorways, are foot=yes. Legally you can walk on the road, even if there is not footpath ("sidewalk"). I think this adds bloat and quests which will annoy mappers.
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> Germany and Italy as well (motorroads and motorways excluded).
> Sooner or later we might add sidewalk=no tags to many roads in the countryside (maybe, so long I wasn’t actually doing it). There may be a fundamental conflict of the StreetComplete project (which encourages to verify everything) and our usually sloppy way of assuming defaults. Problem is with lots of “boring” tags on every object, we’ll loose focus/overview and it might reduce data quality rather than augmenting it. I acknowledge some compromise is already offered by asking only for roads without sidewalks, but it is still too many, if it were only in built-up areas it would be probably acceptable (for Italy or Germany).
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> Cheers, Martin 
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