[Tagging] How to tag pedestrian lanes?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

20 Oct 2019, 19:08 by selfishseahorse at gmail.com:

> On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 12:42, Tobias Zwick <osm at westnordost.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> How about:
>>
>> sidewalk=right
>> sidewalk:right:kerb=no
>>
>
> I dislike using these tags for pedestrian lanes for the following
> reasons (sorry if i repeat myself):
>
>  * It doesn't make sense: if it doesn't have a kerb (or any other
> physical barrier) it isn't a sidewalk.
I am curious about opinion of a native speaker
of British English.

Are you maybe one?

(Sorry for poor phrasing here,
I tried to make it less aggressive and failed)
>  * Blind people are able to make out a sidewalk, but not a pedestrian lane.
>
No one argues against tagging this info.
We only disagree how it should be tagged.
>  * It's misleading: Data users may not know the tag
> sidewalk:right:kerb=no and thus may make wrong assumptions. For
> example, a navigation application may guide a pedestrian along a route
> with only pedestrian lanes instead of safer route with sidewalks.
>
And with a new incompatible tag
routing software may guide along
road without even such lane, instead of
using route where at least pedestrian
lanes are present.

In both cases routing software would
benefit from an upgrade.
>
>  * pedestrian_lane=<left/right/both> is simpler for mappers and data users.
>
Depends on whatever you consider
it as a low quality sidewalk or
a separate feature.
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