I created https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/17391 
<https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/17391> and
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/5991 
<https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/5991>


Maybe this is a good idea, maybe it will be implemented and maybe it will help 
to keep control
over situation.


Feb 26, 2019, 3:30 PM by [email protected]:

>
>
> Am Di., 26. Feb. 2019 um 14:40 Uhr schrieb Sergio Manzi <> [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> >:
>
>> ... and not only cycleways: have a look here, where I live: >> 
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.4364/12.3334 
>> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.4364/12.3334>
>>  
>>  All are "highway=pedestrian", at the same level, but believe me: they are 
>> not!
>>
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>
>
> 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 
> <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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