[Tagging] When does highway=footway become highway=pedestrian?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 1 Nov 2021, at 02:56, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:
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> The distinction between a pedestrian plaza and an ordinary footway is a bit fuzzy. In some places I'm familiar with, pedestrian plazas have distinct names and fill in gaps in the street grid, rather than being associated with other streets, so that's a good rule of thumb locally.


squares, of which pedestrian plazas are a subtype, can be mapped as place=square, so the distinction whether a pedestrian area is also a square, or part of a square, can be unambiguously answered, if the squares are mapped. On the other hand, parts of squares often aren’t pedestrian accessible, or intended to be accessible, e.g. flowerbeds, fountains, sculptures, lawn and roads. place=square was introduced to overcome the limitations of using highway=pedestrian for it

Cheers Martin