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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Do., 16. Apr. 2020 um 12:48 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:

> 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> <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.
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> What reason is there for excluding other modes of transport?
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the reason is legislation. Oneway as defined in law is applying only to
vehicular traffic.



> If "oneway" cannot be used then what do you think should be used?
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direction dependent access tags.

Cheers,
Martin
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