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

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Fri Oct 29 15:05:33 UTC 2021




Oct 29, 2021, 13:07 by nathancase at outlook.com:

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> > highway=pedestrian area=yes
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> > seems to be not fitting for this, in my opinion.
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> I agree. I can see the justification in why it has been done – the mapper wants to show the pedestrian area, rather than just a linear way and this is the only(?) way it’ll get rendered. 
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Well, 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Mistagging_for_the_renderer

> However, the actual object doesn’t really match the highway=pedestrian description. It would seem odd to allow a supplementary tag (area=yes) to change (or ignore) the meaning of the primary tag (highway=pedestrian).
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Yeah, it is a bit unusual.
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