Thanks Cyton.

Just to be clear, I'm only talking about automobile roads -
highway=trunk/primary/secondary/tertiary/unclassified/residential.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 3:41 PM <cyton_...@web.de> wrote:

> If and only if there is a separately mapped sidewalk.
> Sidewalk=separate means there needs to be such a way.
> However i would tag foot=use_sidepath, which means the same as foot=no but
> also indicates the existence of a separate way usable for routing.
> And only if the highway is a streets centerline, not a cycleway or other.
>
> Cyton
> Am 18.12.22, 21:32 schrieb "Brian M. Sperlongano" <zelonew...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am the author of a data consumer which generates a list of streets that
>> are accessible to walkers and joggers. The idea is that a user would have a
>> map of the streets in their town and can challenge themselves to walk/jog
>> down every street, and they can look at statistics on which streets they've
>> completed.  I use a 25-meter rule, so if a user can walk along the
>> shoulder, or on a sidewalk/pavement, or in the verge, that's acceptable.
>>
>> I recently came across an unexpected tagging combination and I would like
>> to understand how folks in various places would interpret this:
>>
>> highway=<whatever>
>> foot=no
>> sidewalk=separate
>>
>> In my software's logic, I've made the assumption that foot=* applies to
>> "the whole of the road" including the roadway, shoulders, verge, sidewalks,
>> and so forth and thus excluded any roads that include that tag, regardless
>> of other tagging. I came to understand that this tagging was used by a
>> mapper to indicate that "pedestrians are not allowed on the roadway,
>> however, they are allowed on the sidewalk"
>>
>> Would folks regard that as accurate data modeling?  I.e. should I change
>> my software to treat streets tagged in this way as pedestrian-accessible,
>> or would folks regard this combination as a tagging error?
>>
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