@JamesChevalier, Can we exclude pedestrian areas (these are different than pedestrian streets). Pedestrian areas are definitely not streets and until you find yourself running an open area on a building, they’re not very fun. Final consideration is that they are extremely difficult to map a run including them.
I’ve encountered some of these too. I left them alone and did not edit OSM but they did not seem like appropriate places to be running. Walking them would be easy though. I’m talking about areas inside a shopping mall or outdoor spaces where there may be large throngs of people wandering around. I’m not sure these pedestrian areas should be included in CS, at least for running purposes.
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There are a few conversations on this topic:
- Pedestrian area
- Should I fix this park? area=pedestrian?
- Pedestrian vs footway
- And then one about how this impacts Route Builder - Pedestrian areas are included as streets, but can't build into Route Builder
There’s Key:area - OpenStreetMap Wiki that might usefully exclude these if I filter on its yes value…
There’s also Tag:place=square - OpenStreetMap Wiki which might describe these places…
Because e.g. some sections of Broadway would be excluded with this change - Way: Broadway (167923357) | OpenStreetMap and Way: Broadway (1118420725) | OpenStreetMap are two examples
Or perhaps the answer is that the usable pedestrian-only streets should be re-tagged to highway=living_street like Way: Broadway (626514137) | OpenStreetMap
(Edit: Based on Tag:highway=living_street - OpenStreetMap Wiki this seems like a wrong choice)
Some examples from other threads that look removable to me:
I’d like a few more examples outside of Broadway where removing highway=pedestrian would have a negative impact. This could help us determine a useful tagging exclusion or a re-tagging suggestion.
I implore you to not remove highway=pedestrian!!! There are hundreds of streets I’ve run that would be ‘affected’ (i.e., no longer counted), here are just a handful from Lisboa:
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