[Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

[Craig Wallace]

On 2014-12-01 13:57, Richard Mann wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, SomeoneElse <lists at atownsend.org.uk
> <mailto:lists at atownsend.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Usage of adjacent seems to be fairly localised in the UK:
>
>     http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6k7
>
> Yeah, probably just me (maybe nobody else feels the need to make the
> distinction). I think there are some places in Germany where they have
> separately drawn all the sidewalks, might be worth looking for/at.

If mapping them as separate ways, you can tag them as highway=footway + 
footway=sidewalk.
See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:footway%3Dsidewalk
That tag seems to be fairly common across much of the UK.