Proposal:Footway

This map feature proposal has been merged into Proposed features/Advanced footway and cycleway.

Footway
Proposal status:	Obsoleted (inactive)
Proposed by:	Cbm
Tagging:	footway=both:left:right:none
Applies to:	linear
Definition:	for better capture the details of where footways are next to roads
Statistics:
Draft started:
Proposed on:	2008-06-10

Proposed new tag: footway=both/left/right/none

Rationale

Provide a method to indicate whether a sidewalk exists along a road, without needing to map as a separate way. Should be used where the sidewalk is adjacent to the road, or with a narrow (less than 2 meters or so) verge between. If the distance between the sidewalk and road is large or variable, it should be mapped separately.

Applies to

Ways tagged as a highway which have a sidewalk (footway) following alongside. This is most roads besides highway=motorway and link roads in urban areas.

Usage

For footway on both sides of a road: (default for residential-roads)

<tag k="footway" v="both"/>

For footway on left side of a road:

<tag k="footway" v="left"/>

For footway on right side of a road:

<tag k="footway" v="right"/>

For roads with no footways/sidewalks:

<tag k="footway" v="none"/>

Tag Values

One of: footway=both, footway=left, footway=right or footway=none.

Rendering

a footway instead of the outline of a road

Comments

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See also

• Sidewalk proposal - a newer proposal, only differing by use of the key name sidewalk=* instead of footway=*

• a bit of research into those proposals that currently touch the multilane-problem
• highway=footway