[Tagging] How to tag pedestrian lanes?

[John Willis]

> On Oct 21, 2019, at 3:40 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
> 
> There is no kerb or other barrier at all, but still it's obviously a sidewalk.

I agree with you that this is is a sidewalk. 

I spoke too quickly when I said that all sidewalks have kerbs. There is clear delineation that there is a separate, yet adjacent way for people, even though there is no kerb. Sidewalks always have some kind of physical barrier (a raised kerb or a kerb barrier), a materials change, or **some physical representation** that it is "not part of the road".

Lanes always imply that you are "part of the road". That you are "in the road". A cycle path and a cycle lane are very distinct, in all their forms, and this is the difference. 

We can all imagine a bus lane, a turn lane, a cycle lane, and whatever a "pedestrian lane" might be in the road. It's part of the road. It's marked with a (painted) line to separate one from the other. The lane feels like part of the road. The green lanes I deal with in Japan are clearly part of the road. I don't know how to map them as a lane, but it is clearly a lane, and not a sidewalk. 

Good luck with working this out.