[Tagging] StreetComplete 10 / foot=yes on residential

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 11:17 JS <grimpeur78 at gmail.com wrote:

> The legal situation is already represented by the default OSM setting,
> considering all highways as "foot=yes" except some like motorways or those
> explicitly marked as "foot=no".
>

This seems like a good time to remind folks that in North America, there is
no sane default for bicycle or foot on motorways, half the states allow
both.  Ive seen bicycle lanes on the freeway in BC and Texas.  The other
half have a myriad of rules about when and where, some have a total ban.
And then there's Oklahoma and Arkansas where it depends on whether or not
it's part of a bike route or hiking route, what the minimum speed limit is,
and whether or not it's a toll road... and then there's Oregon and
Washington, where not allowing either is limited enough that bike maps can
spell out the prohibitions in a short paragraph and bicycling on the
freeway is substantially safer than using a surface street with bicycle
lanes.

I make a habit out of explicitly tagging foot and bicycle access on
motorways I'm familiar with.
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