[Tagging] StreetComplete 10 / foot=yes on residential

[Jan S]

>> We also need to apply common sense when mapping.
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>yes. Although common sense is not a criterion for legal access. This is
>either allowed or forbidden, and unless it is forbidden, access is by
>default allowed on roads. 

I fear common sense in fact somehow IS a legal criterion. Lawyers and lawmakers have already more than a hundred years ago rendered to the fact that it's impossible to regulate people's behaviour into every last detail. This is particularly true for a system with so many participants like traffic. That's why above all other traffic rules there's the basic rule of " you shall not pose more risk to others than what is strictly inevitable". Here in Germany this rule is expressed in section 1 subsection 2 of the traffic code (§ 1 (2) StVO). And that's why no sign is necessary at the tunnel at Tunisstrasse in Cologne (the example put forward in this discussion before). There, all pedestrians, load-bearing or not, have plenty of less dangerous options than walking through the tunnel. In consequence, I would consider it right to tag the tunnel as "foot=no".

All the best!
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