On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:29 PM Janko Mihelić <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> čet, 28. velj 2019. u 14:15 Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> 
> napisao je:
>
> I agree, but we have a practical problem with people that think that this:
> https://images.mapillary.com/QQXg40ewDRF6hsi0jNGhzA/thumb-2048.jpg
>
> cannot be tagged the same as this:
> https://images.mapillary.com/53iC9URhRKV_gYsxbF4ZYw/thumb-2048.jpg
>
> People look at the first photo as a little street, not as a footway. It also 
> probably has a name xx street.
> Both are really footways, but the resemblance ends there. I think adding 
> footway=alley to the first one would make sense to people, and maybe then 
> they will stop with wrong tagging.

So, if width alone is used as criterion to distinguish between
highway=footway and highway=pedestrian, the second one would be
highway=pedestrian, since it is wide enough and smooth enough for a
vehicle to pass. I agree that tagging it this way would be sort of
incorrect, as it ignores the purpose and function of that way.

Similar to that is the difference between path [1] and track [2]. I've
seen some people argue that the difference is simply width, but the
wiki allows tagging wide ways as path. The actual difference between
them is purpose and function.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Path_examples
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tracktype

-- 
Fernando Trebien

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