[Tagging] How to tag pedestrian lanes?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Mo., 21. Okt. 2019 um 18:15 Uhr schrieb Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de
>:

> Me too. As I see it, the core of the question comes down to whether the
> OSM data model should put a pedestrian road section without a kerb in
> the same general category as one with a kerb, or whether these should be
> treated as separate concepts.
>
> To me, it makes more sense to consider them as roughly the same thing
> and model the distinction with an additional tag. For most use cases,
> data users can likely handle them very similarly, even though I
> acknowledge that there may be exceptions (such as Markus's example of
> navigation for blind users).



For pedestrian safety this seems to be a serious compromise, likely not a
situation where parents would like their children walking to school if
avoidable.
I'm not sure I would want these lanes to integrate seamlessly and
automatically with existing pedestrian routing.

Cheers,
Martin
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