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

[Andy Townsend]

On 23/05/2019 17:45, Tobias Zwick wrote:
> "Redundant" is perhaps not the best way to describe the problem. I'd go about this like this:
>
> A "highway=footway" is a footway, a "public_transport=platform" is a bus stop (platform). These are simply two different things. They *share* certain properties, for example, they are accessible both by pedestrians, but that does not make a bus stop platform a footway.
> Giving an extreme example: Paved brownfields and parking lots are not footways. But following the argument of the iD developers, they probably should.
>
That's an excellent summary.  I can think of a few railway platforms 
that also form part of footpath routes, but must do not.  Having an 
editor automatically add "highway=footway" to all platforms devalues the 
work of all those who've used the tag explicitly in the past.

Best Regards,

Andy