Thank you (Warin, fly, Andy) for the replies.
I know think that I have a basic understanding why *we* favor sidewalk=* over
footway=*.
Again, thank you all.
Hubert
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Please have a look into the archive of this list and the discussion of
the sidewalk proposal.
It was designed to replace footway
, 20. Januar 2015 00:56
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Subject: Re: [Tagging] sidewalk=* or footway=* (Hubert)
On 19/01/2015 23:19, Warin wrote:
To me, sidewalk is American English.
British English is more footway?
footpath is common Australian English.
In English English* footpath means
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https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-March/007023.html
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Please have
On 20/01/2015 13:01, Hubert wrote:
I just found the following Thread ion the GB mailing list:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2012-August/013663.html
(I haven’t read it yet.) Is that the one you where referring to?
That's certainly one of them, yes. I have a vague
Please have a look into the archive of this list and the discussion of
the sidewalk proposal.
It was designed to replace footway=both/left/right/none but transition
is slow.
JOSM just introduced a validator warning offering an automatic change.
Speaking for myself, I did not care to change a
On 20/01/2015 2:44 AM, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:44:20 +0100
From: Hubert sg.fo...@gmx.de
To: 'Tag discussion, strategy and related tools'
tagging@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Tagging] sidewalk=* or footway=*
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On 19/01/2015 23:19, Warin wrote:
To me, sidewalk is American English.
British English is more footway?
footpath is common Australian English.
In English English* footpath means either that thing at the side of
the road that Americans call a sidewalk or a path not at the side of
the road
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=*
