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

[Warin]

On 16/4/20 7:59 pm, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> On 16. Apr 2020, at 05:04, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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).
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> it may have been used to intend applicability to pedestrians, but the wiki was always clear on this: oneway is about restrictions for vehicles and does not apply to pedestrians. There are 15 million oneway tags in the db, of these just a tiny fraction was intended to apply to pedestrians, almost all were intended not to apply to pedestrians. Let’s fix the erratic ones and move on.


What reason is there for excluding other modes of transport?

If "oneway" cannot be used then what do you think should be used?


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