[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

[Sergio Manzi]

Venice situation is unusual but not unique and in other contexts different tagging schemes have been used, not limited by the footway/pedestrian alternative.

As an example see how this road in Mackinac Island (/no motor vehicles there.../) is tagged: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17874338

I've seen others too, but OTOMH I can't remember where, probably France (/possibly St. Malo.../) and/or Netherland, but by Googling for "pedestrian town/city" and then checking on OSM,  several pops up...

Cheers,

Sergio


On 2019-02-26 15:30, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> Am Di., 26. Feb. 2019 um 14:40 Uhr schrieb Sergio Manzi <smz at smz.it <mailto:smz at smz.it>>:
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>     ... and not only cycleways: have a look here, where I live: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.4364/12.3334
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>     All are "highway=pedestrian", at the same level, but believe me: they are not!
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> Venice is a globally unique (or maybe almost unique) exception anyway, but what we currently have there is the result of people reclassifying all the footways as pedestrian roads, even if they are 50 cm wide. I have started in the past several attempts to open a discussion on this, but it felt like Don Quixote. See this as an example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/488627565/history I have surveyed it myself, like many others, where I began to reclassify the very narrow footpaths from pedestrian to footway, but I am not local and people destroy the finer grained distinction of footway and pedestrian as soon as you add them, I guess they do not want the red dots. It is unfortunate, because it makes the Venice map much harder to read and less useful. If you are local, please try to improve the situation, we do not need new tags, it would be sufficient to apply the existing ones consistently rather than indiscriminately.
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> Cheers,
> Martin
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