Which one is the better tag to say that a way is oneway for pedestrians?

[skyper]

You are right, I got confused that despite the title only path and footway are mentioned in the description.

I think it would have been better to only link to the poll in the other topic as now the discussion is split into two topics and I only can quote myself:

@skyper

Well, I hope after 183 comments that it is clear to everyone that considering oneway=yes for pedestrian is most of the time wrong and that highway=* which are only allowed in one direction for pedestrians is a rare case.

@SomeoneElse

@dieterdreist

and fix it with less ambiguous tags

Er, no. highway=footway; oneway=yes is not ambiguous.
It only starts becoming ambiguous when you start saying that “other modes of transport can also access that footway” which is very much the exception rather than the rule.

Even if we find some situations where it might not be ambiguous, I have to ask if we want to make exceptions (plus probably exceptions from the exceptions) or if we want to make it clear and consider oneway=* only for vehicles (plus horses?).

Regarding editors, presets could include the information that oneway=* is not for pedestrians and offer another tag.

Regarding oneway:foot vs foot:forward/backward, I would prefer a clean cut and use the latter.