[OSM-talk] area:highway=pedestrian signalled in Inspector as an object without tag features

Seke Rob onecow2 at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 18 10:41:58 UTC 2023


This tag is well described in a OSM wiki page

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:area:highway%3Dpedestrian

The OSM Inspector tagging view reports an object labelled like this as "Name/description without important tags". The object in question is a pedestrian area with a name.
Usage per tag info is around 7.6K
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/area%3Ahighway=pedestrian#overview

Opposed the highway=pedestrian + area=yes raises no flags

A tag like area:highway=traffic_island is neither considered a problem and has as of now about 15.9K use
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/area%3Ahighway=pedestrian#overview

JOSM nor from what I recollect ID Editor are flagging area:highway=pedestrian as a problem. JOSM in fact colours the closed way with the correct style albeit not as an area. Does do so when adding the redundant area=yes tag which it does not flag as redundant.

Is this a false positive needing adding to the valid list?

Rob (SekeRob in OSM world)
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