[Tagging] iD adding highway=footway to all railway/public_transport=platform ways and relations

[Jmapb]

On 5/23/2019 12:26 PM, Nick Bolten wrote:
> I'm confused, because these two statements seem incompatible. If it's
> redundant, how can it also have a conflict like different address
> restrictions? I'd like to know how, as a data consumer, I should
> reliably interpret existing platforms without the tag added by iD.
>
> Taking a step back, can anyone name an instance where a linear transit
> platform is not a footway?

This reads like a trick question.

- "All platforms are, in some sense, footways."
- "So we should tag them as footways!"

or

- "Here's an example of a weird platform that certainly isn't a footway!"
- "Aha, interesting! Clearly this shows the necessity of tagging the
*other* 100,000 platforms as footways, to show the difference!"

J