[Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

Jason Remillard remillard.jason at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 15:58:46 UTC 2014


Hi

I think highway=footway for a sidewalk is 100% ok. Also I get the
impression that the tagging is not settled yet either.

Jason

On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, William Morris <wboykinm at geosprocket.com>
wrote:

> Is there a general OSM policy on marking sidewalks as highway=footway?
> User dolphinling appears to have gone crazy in downtown Burlington,VT
> tracing the sidewalks and calling them footways. Which wouldn't be a
> problem if footways weren't so cartographically distinct in everyone's
> stylesheets:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.47772/-73.21112
>
> Should I:
>
> 1. Revert
> 2. Get in touch with the editor
> 3. Get over it
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Bill Morris
> @vtcraghead
>
>
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