[Tagging] Meaning of access=yes on highway=footway?

[Raphael]

Thank you all for your replies so far and sorry for having missed that
part on the wiki page.

Note that highway=footway + access=yes (and with neither
motor_vehicle=* nor motorcar=*) is not uncommon. For example, there
are currently 1973 such ways in the United Kingdom, 1355 in Germany,
485 in France, 408 in Belgium, 338 in Italy and 148 in Switzerland
(according to Overpass Turbo).

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 17:56, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:

> But isnt it that we dont put any physical apperance into
> our highway=* tagging?  We tag what a way is used for, and probably
> legal to be used for. Physical appearance shows up in lanes, surface,
> smoothness, sidewalk, cycleway, lit, shoulder and the like.

Isn't the difference between highway=footway and highway=pedestrian
its width, that is a physical property? I thought that highway=footway
is too narrow for most double-tracked motor vehicles.

Best regards,
Raphael