Documenting in use tag: cycleway=sidewalk - review is welcomed

[balchen]

@ezekielf

A use case I’ve seen discussed is a data consumer wanting to distinguish streets with sidewalks from those without. This is indicated by sidewalk=yes|no [1] or sidewalk=separate|no where sidewalk ways are also mapped separately. This use case isn’t interested in those separate ways themselves, just whether sidewalks are present as an attribute of the street. This could be one aspect of giving a street a pedestrian friendliness score or it could be for a color-coded city scale map of which streets have sidewalks and which don’t. For this use case, it would not make sense to classify streets with a multi-use sidepath in the same bucket as the streets with no sidewalk at all.

Good point. And in this case, tagging – or not tagging – the sidepath with cycleway=sidewalk doesn’t impact the data consumer at all. For consumers/use cases who look at things from the other way’s perspective, tagging is_sidepath=yes will contribute what they need.

Is there a use case for cycleway=sidewalk that isn’t covered by these two?