[Talk-us] rebooting: tagging footways and sidewalks discussion

[Clifford Snow]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:58 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We blogged about it here:
> https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapping-sidewalks/
>
> Mapbox data team also started editing a few areas today and we found a
> couple of tagging issues like turn_restrictions for footways, detected
> sidewalks with bicycle=yes (is this common in the US?)
>

There are plenty of highway=footways in the use that allow both bikes and
foot traffic. A prominent one in Seattle is the Burke-Gillman Trail.
Although I've been yelled at once by a rider that felt it should only be
for bikes, it is a multi use footpath.

I hope your team isn't changing trails like the Burke-Gillman to include a
footway=sidewalk tag. While these do a times run along roads, they are not
really sidewalks. Can we get some assurances that named footpaths will be
left to someone with local knowledge to review?

Clifford






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