[Tagging] How to tag pedestrian lanes?

[Philip Barnes]

On Monday, 21 October 2019, Paul Allen wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 08:23, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > while I am not, I’m pretty sure the British term is pavement, not sidewalk
> 
> 
> 
> Yes.  It's as idiotic as us Brits calling underpants "pants"  because the
> sidewalk is paved
> but the road is also paved so both are pavements.  But that's what we do.

But the British English technical/legal term is footway, which has also found its way into OSM.

You will often see signs warning of no footway for <distance>.

And sorry Paul, I cannot remember the Welsh version.

Phil (trigpoint)

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