Hallo, I am working on some ideas for a proposal [1] to double represent cycletracks and footways. It is at the very beginning at the moment and I haven't made up my mind about how to do that.
While I was researching different stuff, 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> =footway <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway> " in a warning box on the Key:footway wiki page [4]. It appears that this box has been added by a user only 3 days after posting a comment on the discussion page. [5] Also a overpass query [1] as of 2015-01-14 has return around 40.000 uses of footway=* on highway=*roads* only, excluding hw=footway/cycleway/path. However there are 500.000 uses of sidewalk=*. While this shows a majority use for sidewalk=*, I can't see why footway=* should be deprecated for *roads* nor did I find a related discussion about this. Could someone point me in the right direction for more information on that topic? Yours Hubert [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Hubert87/DoubleRepresentation [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
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