To sidestep your question, oneway=yes on a highway=footway, cycleway or path already implies it's not accessible to vehicles so a oneway tag on any of those highway tags should apply to all modes of transport. So highway=footway + oneway=yes shouldn't need any other tags like oneway:foot.
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 13:04, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some paths and footways have oneway=yes. Sometimes this means that > bicycles may only access these features in one direction, but other > times it has been used for one-way features for pedestrians (for > example, queues in theme parks or at border control stations). > > Other more specific tags have been promoted, since the wiki states > that oneway=yes is for vehicles. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:oneway:foot is used about 1400 > times > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:foot:backward is used about 140 > times > > The wiki for Key:oneway was just edited to recommend using > foot:backward instead of oneway:foot > > But as an English speaker, I find it difficult to immediately > understand the meaning of foot:backward=no (which uses a double > negative, as it were), while oneway:foot=yes seems clear right away. > > Is there really a reason to prefer the less common tag? Does it make > more sense in other languages? > > -- Joseph Eisenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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