Hi.
I'm from Germany, and therefore not argumenting with the English
language, but "footway" is a more general term as distinct ways for
people moving by foot are "footways", too.
Ways along or part of a street with main purpose of often motorized
vehicles - a indication for that is, that cars are located in the middle
and therefore with less crossings than pedestrians - should be
distinguished from standalone footways. Therefore I would prefer
"sidewalk" or "pavement".
Of these, sidewalk for me is more self explaining than pavement.
I'm good enough speaking English to know even the word pavement - but
that the way, where you walk along a street on one side is called
sidewalk is better to understand even if the vocabulary is not known in
particular.
Thus I would prefer (and I even used it in the past) sidewalk as a tag
for - well - sidewalks.
regards
Peter
Am 17.03.2011 15:42, schrieb j...@jfeldredge.com:
Collapsing the two tags into one seems reasonable, but there should continue to be a wiki page for whichever
tag is discontinued, in order to direct people to the preferred tag. "Sidewalk" is the standard
term in the USA; from my reading, both "pavement" and "footway" seem to be standard usage
in the UK. I don't know what the standard terms are in other English-speaking countries.
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Subject :[Tagging] Sidewalks vs Footways
> From :mailto:emac...@gmail.com
Date :Thu Mar 17 09:15:48 America/Chicago 2011
There's an abandoned tag for sidewalks along the side of the road that
apparently has some use in the UK:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Footway
http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Great_britain/En/tags.html
And there's a nearly identical tag proposal called Sidewalk:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sidewalk
I'd like to suggest collapsing these two tags into a unified tag and
making a final vote, and then fixing tags as necessary.
Thoughts?
- Serge
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