2011/3/17 Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de> > 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. >
I agree with Peter. In Italy we use "highway=footway" for ways that have been designed for pedestrians, as opposed to "regular" streets that are closed to motorized traffic that we tag with "highway=pedestrian". While it may be the case that some sidewalks have been tagged as footways, I think the two concepts should be kept separate. It seems to me that there are substantial differences between a sidewalk and a paved path through a park, for example. > regards > Peter > Regards, Simone
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