[OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/5/29 Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com>:
>
>  I'd agree that service isn't quite right, if that's the front of the
>  buildings. But similarly residential isn't right either (I guess we all
>  think of that as something with pavements/sidewalks).
>
> residential doesn't imply sidewalks in my area
>
>  So is there any objection to highway=pedestrian+bicycle=yes+motorcycle=yes?
>
> I think the real issue is that these ways are what one would call
> "public rights of way" in the UK, or "public ways" in the US, and one
> can legally walk on them for no apparent reason, but they don't allow
> cars.

Isn't that highway=pedestrian exactly?  As for cars I think it might
be a physical impossibility rather than permitted / not permitted.
(But for routing purposes it's just the same.)

Cheers