[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - "is_sidepath" as a sidepath concept

[Alex]

Paths and ways along a road can be mapped separately in OSM, but those 
separate geometries cannot be identified as part of the road, or only 
with the significant effort of using geometric processing (which most 
applications can't perform). However, the information whether a path is 
attendant to a road or not is important for many use cases and can offer 
various advantages.

Therefore, a sidepath concept using the tag "is_sidepath" as an 
additional tag on ways (in particular cycle ways or foot paths) is 
proposed to indicate whether a way is related/attendant to a road (i.e. 
adjacent and parallel to a road) or whether it runs 
independently/isolated without any relationship to a road. Furthermore, 
an extended set of sub-tags is proposed to allow to explicitly tag 
important road attributes on the sidepath itself.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:is_sidepath

You can discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page or here.

Best, Alex
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