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

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 15:06 2021-10-30, nathan case đã viết:
> Since highway=footway and area=yes isn't documented I was thinking of 
> use a scheme that is documented (area:highway=footway). However, your 
> taginfo link did make me look deeper and it appears that, although not 
> documented, there are ~60k uses of highway=footway, area=yes, so it's 
> clearly well used.

highway=footway area=yes may be more popular than area:highway=footway, 
but only at a ratio of 2:1, so I'd chalk it up to the relative youth and 
obscurity of the area:highway=* tagging scheme. Other kinds of highway=* 
area=yes have been controversial and at least one renderer has 
consciously removed support for them as a tagging mistake. [1] In the 
long run, area:highway=* probably has more of a future overall than 
highway=* area=yes.

[1] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/4096

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