Are you saying that in Texas you can't walk on a street that doesn't have a
sidewalk?
Only in a city environment or also in a non-city environment?
Or in Texas if you're on foot you're going nowhere?
Definitely not human!


Il giorno dom 18 dic 2022 alle ore 22:31 Brian M. Sperlongano <
zelonew...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Hi,
>
> The tagging that I cited was from Texas in the USA.  In that location, it
> is illegal to walk in the roadway (where the cars go), but there was a
> separate sidewalk where pedestrians are supposed to walk.  However, my
> software works globally so I'm trying to understand how that
> `sidewalk=separate` + `foot=no` combination should be interpreted on a
> global basis, or if I should just ignore those combinations as a tagging
> error.
>
> So the situation is:
> 1. There is a sidewalk, and it's mapped separately
> 2. The road is tagged sidewalk=separate + foot=no
> 3. It's illegal to walk in the road itself because there is a sidewalk
> (state law in that area)
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 4:22 PM Ivo Reano <reano...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know in your area if all pedestrians who use the streets just
>> because they don't have a car are punished.
>> In Italy, only motorways and some major traffic routes are formally
>> "forbidden" to pedestrian transit.
>> If I found a foot=yes on a street, simply to indicate that one should not
>> walk in the middle of the street, I would delete that tag (and send a
>> message to the user asking what he meant).
>> It seems obvious to me that if I walk on a road I keep to the left
>> (excuse non-Anglo-Saxons, but this is the preferred direction for
>> pedestrians on driveways in the rest of the world).
>> While if I'm on a road with no traffic (not flat) I mostly walk on the
>> downhill side.
>> In short: if there isn't a sidewalk, and the street isn't reserved for
>> vehicles (but where do you live?) foot=no it seems absurd to me, or rather
>> wrong.
>>
>> Ivo, Jrachi
>>
>> Il giorno dom 18 dic 2022 alle ore 22:05 <cyton_...@web.de> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Yes, only if the local legislation infers that pedestrians have to use a
>>> (usually car) road-accompanying sidewalk.
>>>
>>> Also, your project reminds me of wandrer.earth, where craig also
>>> introduced a way for running to track ran ways, not only for cyclists.
>>> Though i only use it for cycling.
>>>
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>>> Am 18.12.22, 21:47 schrieb "Brian M. Sperlongano" <zelonew...@gmail.com
>>> >:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Cyton.
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear, I'm only talking about automobile roads -
>>>> highway=trunk/primary/secondary/tertiary/unclassified/residential.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 3:41 PM <cyton_...@web.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If and only if there is a separately mapped sidewalk.
>>>>> Sidewalk=separate means there needs to be such a way.
>>>>> However i would tag foot=use_sidepath, which means the same as foot=no
>>>>> but also indicates the existence of a separate way usable for routing.
>>>>> And only if the highway is a streets centerline, not a cycleway or
>>>>> other.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cyton
>>>>> Am 18.12.22, 21:32 schrieb "Brian M. Sperlongano" <
>>>>> zelonew...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am the author of a data consumer which generates a list of streets
>>>>>> that are accessible to walkers and joggers. The idea is that a user would
>>>>>> have a map of the streets in their town and can challenge themselves to
>>>>>> walk/jog down every street, and they can look at statistics on which
>>>>>> streets they've completed.  I use a 25-meter rule, so if a user can walk
>>>>>> along the shoulder, or on a sidewalk/pavement, or in the verge, that's
>>>>>> acceptable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently came across an unexpected tagging combination and I would
>>>>>> like to understand how folks in various places would interpret this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> highway=<whatever>
>>>>>> foot=no
>>>>>> sidewalk=separate
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In my software's logic, I've made the assumption that foot=* applies
>>>>>> to "the whole of the road" including the roadway, shoulders, verge,
>>>>>> sidewalks, and so forth and thus excluded any roads that include that 
>>>>>> tag,
>>>>>> regardless of other tagging. I came to understand that this tagging was
>>>>>> used by a mapper to indicate that "pedestrians are not allowed on the
>>>>>> roadway, however, they are allowed on the sidewalk"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would folks regard that as accurate data modeling?  I.e. should I
>>>>>> change my software to treat streets tagged in this way as
>>>>>> pedestrian-accessible, or would folks regard this combination as a 
>>>>>> tagging
>>>>>> error?
>>>>>>
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