Exclude Pedestrian Areas

[JamesChevalier]

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:

• Stora kajen - CityStrides
  • Way: ‪Stora kajen‬ (‪164859726‬) | OpenStreetMap
• Upper Plaza - CityStrides
  • Way: ‪Upper Plaza‬ (‪711553510‬) | OpenStreetMap
• Järntorget - CityStrides
  • Way: ‪Järntorget‬ (‪27345570‬) | OpenStreetMap

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.