Sorry, was talking about the RFC discussion on this list [6] but your link or better gmane.org [7] as threads are better listed is the starting point.
The discussion at the same time about sidewalk as separate ways might be also interesting. cu fly [6] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.tagging/7106 [7] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.tagging/7051 Am 20.01.2015 um 13:55 schrieb Hubert: > Thanks for the quick response. > Sadly the discussion page wasn't much help. But I think I found the right > thread on the mailing list (though I haven't read it yet): > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-March/007023.html >> -----Original Message----- >> From: fly [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2015 01:05 >> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools >> Subject: Re: [Tagging] sidewalk=* or footway=* >> >> Please have a look into the archive of this list and the discussion of >> the sidewalk proposal. >> >> It was designed to replace footway=both/left/right/none but transition >> is slow. >> >> JOSM just introduced a validator warning offering an automatic change. >> >> Speaking for myself, I did not care to change a whole city and with >> your mentioned numbers a well-designed software will still look for >> both tags. >> >> >> >> Am 19.01.2015 um 16:44 schrieb Hubert: >>> Hallo, >>> >>> I am working on some ideas for a proposal[1]to double represent >>> cycletracksand footways.It is at the very beginning at the moment >> and >>> I haven’tmade upmy mindabout how to do that. >>> >>> While I was researchingdifferentstuff, I noticed that the proposals >> to >>> footway=*[2]and sidewalk=*[3] haven’t been voted on.Yet, it sais“Do >>> not use*******footway*=*on other >>> >> than___highway_<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=___foo >>> tway_<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway>”in >>> a warning box ontheKey:footway wiki page [4].It appears that this box >>> has been added by a user only3 days after posting a comment on >>> thediscussionpage. [5] >>> >>> Also aoverpass query[1]as of2015-01-14 has return around 40.000 uses >>> offootway=*on highway=*roads*only, excludinghw=footway/cycleway/path. >>> Howeverthere are500.000 usesof sidewalk=*.While this shows a majority >>> usefor sidewalk=*, I can’t seewhy >>> footway=* should bedeprecatedfor *roads*nor did I find arelated >>> discussion about this. >>> >>> Could someone point meinthe right directionformore information on >> that >>> topic? >>> >>> Yours >>> >>> Hubert >>> >>> >> [1]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Hubert87/DoubleRepresent >>> >> atio____n_<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Hubert87/DoubleRepr >>> esentation> >>> >>> [2]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sidewalk_ >>> >>> [3]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Footway_ >>> >>> [4]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:footway_ >>> >>> [5]___http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:footway_ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
