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

[Volker Schmidt]

The tagging seems basically ok.
The way 899600621  reflects correctly the shared foot-cycle-path which is
there. The only thing I would do is to remove the bicyle=yes from the
pedestrian area, as I would expect the cyclists to stay on the
foot-cycle-path.

<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>
Virus-free.
www.avast.com
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>
<#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 02:41, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 7:03 AM nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve just posted this on the Wiki discussion page (
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:highway%3Dpedestrian#.22For_town_centres_and_civic_areas.22)
>> but the thread is a little old and I know not everyone reads the Wiki
>> anyway…
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m wondering at what point, if at all, a highway=footway becomes
>> highway=pedestrian (i.e., a pedestrian area)?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have an example (
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/365487665#map=18/52.44601/-1.81904) of
>> a sidewalk that has been mapped as a pedestrian area. It is certainly quite
>> wide (around 7-8 m in places) and is located within a town centre/civic
>> area. It even has painted markings (since COVID-19 pandemic began)
>> splitting the direction of travel for pedestrians - though this is, of
>> course, entirely ignored by everyone walking there.
>>
>>
>>
>> However, it is, fundamentally, just a wide paved area for pedestrians
>> that runs parallel and adjacent to the main carriageway (road) – i.e. a
>> sidewalk.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do we define particularly wide sidewalks as pedestrian areas? They do
>> seem to match most of the criteria listed on the Wiki but it doesn’t seem
>> to quite fit for me.
>>
>
> I certainly don't see anything wrong with this pedestrian way since there
> is also a routable highway=path in the middle. (highway=footway +
> footway=sidewalk would be better) It does show that there is a wide
> pedestrian way which is accurate. Without the routable path, then just a
> highway=pedestrian will block people from using it. (I've heard of one
> proprietary router that does route on areas but I'm not aware of any open
> source router that does.)
>
> Best,
> Clifford
>
> --
> @osm_washington
> www.snowandsnow.us
> OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
> _______________________________________________
> Tagging mailing list
> Tagging at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20211027/22187f6f/attachment-0001.htm>