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

[Nick Bolten]

That's not an example of a trick question, just a normal question with
clear implications. I'd be happy to see examples of linear platform
features that aren't footways and have my intuition proven incorrect.

Are there any other outdoor linear features with primary pedestrian access
that aren't footways?

On Thu, May 23, 2019, 9:35 AM Jmapb <jmapb at gmx.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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