[Tagging] StreetComplete 10 / foot=yes on residential

Dave F davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Mon Feb 18 00:45:17 UTC 2019


True. Primarily because there's a false conflation of meanings, such as 
yours. That there are laws in certain countries around the world is 
irrelevant. *Within* OSM that tag has no legality implied. A different 
tag would be required to map what you suggest.

Cheers
DaveF.

On 18/02/2019 00:30, Peter Elderson wrote:
> I'm afraid countries differ with respect to legal imlications of 
> sidewalk.
> This discussion, I've seen it 5 times now ande it never ends with 
> consensus. It never ends at all.
>
> Vr gr Peter Elderson
>
>
> Op ma 18 feb. 2019 om 00:49 schreef Dave F via Tagging 
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org <mailto:tagging at openstreetmap.org>>:
>
>     As already stated, sidewalk is to indicate a physical object.
>     Sidewalk
>     has no legal implications. 'Foot' is used purely to indicate legality.
>
>     On 17/02/2019 22:29, Tobias Wrede wrote:
>     > Am 17.02.2019 um 20:44 schrieb Andy Townsend:
>     >> I don't think that a "global" encouragement to add foot=no makes
>     >> sense; there'll be lots of countries where it'd be silly.
>     >>
>     > I don't think the app "encourages" anything. In this quest the app
>     > merely speculates that the sidewalk=none could maybe warrant a
>     foot=no
>     > and asks the user if that is the case.
>     >
>     > As others and I have pointed out this speculation is not so
>     > ill-founded for some situations (e. g. bridges, tunnels) but
>     overdoes
>     > it for the standard roads out there.
>     >
>     > Tobias W
>     >
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