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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 30 Oct 2021, at 12:11, nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com> wrote:
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> So, it seems (at least to me) we should split the large pedestrian area into smaller areas. But if we do that, is this really a pedestrian area at all?
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there is no size limit for pedestrian areas (highway=pedestrian and area=yes)
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> I’m certainly leaning more towards area:highway=footway or area:highway=cycleway as being the better scheme (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:area:highway%3Dpedestrian)
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We use area:highway for the surface of a linear/directed highway way. For area=yes (pedestrian)highway areas we do not need area:highway because it would cover the exact same area. The resulting map implications from these combinations seem the same? 
There are currently 35k area:highway=footway and 195k h=p with area=yes https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/highway=pedestrian#combinations

why would we choose the weaker scheme if the meaning is the same?

Cheers Martin 

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