[Talk-us] Sidewalks as footpaths

[Mike N]

On 4/30/2014 11:38 AM, William Morris 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.

   It does add a great deal of clutter to those maps that render 
footways.   But for those who wish to be able to use OSM data for 
accurate pedestrian or handicapped routing, the only way is to draw all 
the sidewalks, curb cuts, and pedestrian crossings.