Thanks for the pedestrina vs footway link.  I guess the pedestrian tag
for this case is OK.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Jim Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> maning sambale wrote, On Wednesday, 20 April, 2011 07:46 PM:
>> Mappingquestion how do you tag the famous Rizal boulevard by the
>> beach?  I tagged them as highway=pedestrian or is it highway=footway?
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/5636975267/in/photostream
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/5636985939/in/photostream
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/5637554698/in/photostream
>
> I've always been confused by the footway tag. I think that it actually 
> applies to footbridges, although I can't find any definitive answer. So I 
> tend to keep away from that. I personally think pedestrian, or path or even 
> track would be OK. But that's just me - I tend to put in information I know 
> in an area and then let someone local put it in a consistent style which 
> makes most sense to them.
>
> Here is some OSM chat on pedestrian vs footway
>  http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/2750/pedestrian-vs-footway
>
> Jim
>



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maning
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