Venice situation is unusual but not unique and in other contexts different tagging schemes have been used, not limited by the footway/pedestrian alternative.
As an example see how this road in Mackinac Island (/no motor vehicles there.../) is tagged: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17874338 I've seen others too, but OTOMH I can't remember where, probably France (/possibly St. Malo.../) and/or Netherland, but by Googling for "pedestrian town/city" and then checking on OSM, several pops up... Cheers, Sergio On 2019-02-26 15:30, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > Am Di., 26. Feb. 2019 um 14:40 Uhr schrieb Sergio Manzi <s...@smz.it > <mailto:s...@smz.it>>: > > ... and not only cycleways: have a look here, where I live: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.4364/12.3334 > > All are "highway=pedestrian", at the same level, but believe me: they are > not! > > > > > Venice is a globally unique (or maybe almost unique) exception anyway, but > what we currently have there is the result of people reclassifying all the > footways as pedestrian roads, even if they are 50 cm wide. I have started in > the past several attempts to open a discussion on this, but it felt like Don > Quixote. See this as an example: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/488627565/history I have surveyed it > myself, like many others, where I began to reclassify the very narrow > footpaths from pedestrian to footway, but I am not local and people destroy > the finer grained distinction of footway and pedestrian as soon as you add > them, I guess they do not want the red dots. It is unfortunate, because it > makes the Venice map much harder to read and less useful. If you are local, > please try to improve the situation, we do not need new tags, it would be > sufficient to apply the existing ones consistently rather than > indiscriminately. > > Cheers, > Martin
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