[Tagging] Footways where pedestrians may only walk in one direction: oneway:foot=yes or foot:backward=no?

[Andrew Harvey]

To sidestep your question, oneway=yes on a highway=footway, cycleway or
path already implies it's not accessible to vehicles so a oneway tag on any
of those highway tags should apply to all modes of transport. So
highway=footway + oneway=yes shouldn't need any other tags like oneway:foot.

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 13:04, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Some paths and footways have oneway=yes. Sometimes this means that
> bicycles may only access these features in one direction, but other
> times it has been used for one-way features for pedestrians (for
> example, queues in theme parks or at border control stations).
>
> Other more specific tags have been promoted, since the wiki states
> that oneway=yes is for vehicles.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:oneway:foot is used about 1400
> times
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:foot:backward is used about 140
> times
>
> The wiki for Key:oneway was just edited to recommend using
> foot:backward instead of oneway:foot
>
> But as an English speaker, I find it difficult to immediately
> understand the meaning of foot:backward=no (which uses a double
> negative, as it were), while oneway:foot=yes seems clear right away.
>
> Is there really a reason to prefer the less common tag? Does it make
> more sense in other languages?
>
> -- Joseph Eisenberg
>
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