RfC: Highway=Scramble

[Hungerburg (Asa Hundert)]

@Tordanik

By now, I believe we have a few years’ worth of evidence that end user applications often won’t get the distinction right if you leave it to sub-tags. Some developer will rush to build an app in time for the deadline, see that all the walking paths in their urban surroundings look great if they apply this or that render style to highway=path, and have no idea that this causes scrambles to be displayed in a way that misleads their app’s users into dangerous behavior.

I do not want to speculate on the reasons, but the foot profile for OSMRF as applied on the OSM website certainly is one such app.

PS: Luckily, only few get into danger. In most cases, users just will turn around before they get into danger.