Sidewalk vs Footpath?

[Andrew Harvey-3]

Personally I refer to the path next to the road designed for
pedestrians as the footpath, assuming sidewalk is an american term not
really used in Australian English.

So I had set the translation of "sidewalk" in the iD editor for
Australian English to Footpath, however it seems this is causing
confusion and leading to people inadvertently tagging paths not going
along side the road as a sidewalk.

At the moment iD has two presets "Foot path" (highway=footway) and
"Footpath" (highway=footway, footway=sidewalk).

I see now that's just confusing, so I think we should just change this
back to sidewalk as it's probably understood by most Australians and
it's clearer about the distinction between highway=footway and
highway=footway, footway=sidewalk.

Anyone have any thoughts?

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[Joel H.-2]

In iD for me at least, paths next to roads are called "Pavement". I
agree with this terminology the most and think it was a mistake for OSM
to adapt the footway=sidewalk tag.

On 20/9/18 8:57 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote:

> Personally I refer to the path next to the road designed for
> pedestrians as the footpath, assuming sidewalk is an american term not
> really used in Australian English.
>
> So I had set the translation of "sidewalk" in the iD editor for
> Australian English to Footpath, however it seems this is causing
> confusion and leading to people inadvertently tagging paths not going
> along side the road as a sidewalk.
>
> At the moment iD has two presets "Foot path" (highway=footway) and
> "Footpath" (highway=footway, footway=sidewalk).
>
> I see now that's just confusing, so I think we should just change this
> back to sidewalk as it's probably understood by most Australians and
> it's clearer about the distinction between highway=footway and
> highway=footway, footway=sidewalk.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts?
>
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[Jonathon Rossi]

In iD for me at least, paths next to roads are called "Pavement". I
agree with this terminology the most and think it was a mistake for OSM
to adapt the footway=sidewalk tag.

From my experience "pavement" in the road transport industry commonly refers to the road pavement or road surface, however more broadly the term pavement is any hard surface for any form of traffic.

Personally I refer to the path next to the road designed for
pedestrians as the footpath, assuming sidewalk is an american term not
really used in Australian English.

So I had set the translation of "sidewalk" in the iD editor for
Australian English to Footpath, however it seems this is causing
confusion and leading to people inadvertently tagging paths not going
along side the road as a sidewalk.

At the moment iD has two presets "Foot path" (highway=footway) and
"Footpath" (highway=footway, footway=sidewalk).

I see now that's just confusing, so I think we should just change this
back to sidewalk as it's probably understood by most Australians and
it's clearer about the distinction between highway=footway and
highway=footway, footway=sidewalk.

Anyone have any thoughts?

I agree that us Aussies call both footpaths, iD has always displayed that template as "Sidewalk" for me so must be using en-us, and I agree that it makes sense to differentiate it from the standard "Foot Path" even though Aussie's don't have a different word for them.

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[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 20:59, Andrew Harvey <[hidden email]> wrote:

Personally I refer to the path next to the road designed for
pedestrians as the footpath, assuming sidewalk is an american term not
really used in Australian English.

I agree entirely!

 

At the moment iD has two presets "Foot path" (highway=footway) and
"Footpath" (highway=footway, footway=sidewalk).

My iD also shows both, with the further info descriptions as Foot path: 

For designated footpaths, i.e. mainly/exclusively for pedestrians. & which then links to highway=footway page

while Footpath:

Sidewalks as separate ways links to footway=sidewalk!

I see now that's just confusing,

Confused? Now why would anyone be confused by that? :-)

Thanks 

Graeme

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[Ian Steer]

As much as it irks me to have Americanisms creep into our language (and it irks me a great deal!), I agree with you - sidewalk is more definitive.


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Personally I refer to the path next to the road designed for pedestrians as the footpath, assuming sidewalk is an american term not really used in Australian English.

So I had set the translation of "sidewalk" in the iD editor for Australian English to Footpath, however it seems this is causing confusion and leading to people inadvertently tagging paths not going along side the road as a sidewalk.

At the moment iD has two presets "Foot path" (highway=footway) and "Footpath" (highway=footway, footway=sidewalk).

I see now that's just confusing, so I think we should just change this back to sidewalk as it's probably understood by most Australians and it's clearer about the distinction between highway=footway and highway=footway, footway=sidewalk.

Anyone have any thoughts?



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[Andrew Harvey-3]

> As much as it irks me to have Americanisms creep into our language (and it irks me a great deal!), I agree with you - sidewalk is more definitive.

Here, here. I'll concede, have changed it back to sidewalk.
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> Personally I refer to the path next to the road designed for pedestrians as the footpath, assuming sidewalk is an american term not really used in Australian English.
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> So I had set the translation of "sidewalk" in the iD editor for Australian English to Footpath, however it seems this is causing confusion and leading to people inadvertently tagging paths not going along side the road as a sidewalk.
>
> At the moment iD has two presets "Foot path" (highway=footway) and "Footpath" (highway=footway, footway=sidewalk).
>
> I see now that's just confusing, so I think we should just change this back to sidewalk as it's probably understood by most Australians and it's clearer about the distinction between highway=footway and highway=footway, footway=sidewalk.
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> Anyone have any thoughts?
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