[OSM-talk] Ways in old mediterranean and similar towns.

[Maarten Deen]

On 21-3-2012 17:35, Janko Mihelić wrote:
 > Mappers in these towns treat ways in old parts of their town as
 > something that can't be a footpath. For some reason it insults their
 > vision of those ways. That's why they tag them as pedestrian highways
 > although no cars ever went through them (well, maybe some small delivery
 > vehicles). Another reason is that the names of those ways have "street"

 From the map_features wiki page:
highway=pedestrian: For roads used mainly/exclusively for 
pedestrians/shopping areas. Also for tagging squares and plazas

So why would it be incorrect to map these as pedestrian? The fact that 
motorvehicles don't use them has nothing to do with it.

Maarten