OSM Access Updates Reverted

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Hello,

I’m new to CityStrides and have been loving the project, but there are many nodes near me along country rodes with high speed limits, blind corners, and nowhere to run except in the road itself. When I saw that the way to address nodes along unsafe roads was to update OSM (I followed this post in the Wiki), I made an account and started editing and set the unsafe sections to access: foot: no, as was recommended in the wiki and various places on CityStrides. I genuinely thought I was making helpful contributions.

Then a veteran OSM user came along and reverted my access updates with this note:

Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

Please note that access tags in OSM reflect the verifiable legal position, not your subjective opinion.
access=*

You can give pedestrian routers more information which might help. The 50 mph speed limit is already tagged, but you could also survey and add:
sidewalk=*
verge=*
lanes=*
lit=*

I’m in the UK where there are very few roads where pedestrian access is actually illegal, and according to the OSM wiki, legality is what the access tag is meant to represent. So I took the feedback on board and changed the updates to show that there is no sidewalk, but this doesn’t remove the segments from CityStrides.

Is there a better way I should be making this change? Or am I just stuck with these segments in my area?

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Currently you’re stuck with these being present in CityStrides. You can visit the street page & mark it as manually completed to remove it from your incomplete list.

Long term, I need to figure out a more accurate way of excluding streets based on safety. I think the person who shared that feedback is correct - there’s a combination of sidewalk/lanes/speed which can likely be tied together to decide on whether it’s fit for CityStrides or not. I just haven’t accomplished that yet.

In the past, I’ve used this Overpass query to collect streets. Recently, I moved to a different data source. I’ve added a second sheet in there that displays the newer translated filter.

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