On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:37 PM, David Paleino <da...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:17:14 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > >> Based on this thread, there seems to be general consensus that the >> term "sidewalk" is less linguistically ambiguous than footway. > > I'd like to point out that not all footways are sidewalks. > Sidewalks/pavements/whatever_you_call_them are a particular case of a footway.
> We shouldn't deprecate footway, but instead expand (i.e. add details) to it. David, No one on the thread has argued against deprecating highway=footway, it's a totally separate issue. - Serge _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
