Pedestrian lanes
 Feature: Pedestrian lanes
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A pedestrian lane is a road lane reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians. It serves a similar purpose as a sidewalk or sidepath but is constructed similarly to a bicycle lane, separated from the traffic lanes by only a painted marking, change in surface, or occasional bollard but not a more substantial curb or verge. Road markings or traffic signs may also be present, depending on the jurisdiction. In some cases, a street may have both a pedestrian lane and a sidewalk.
Disambiguation
In Philippine English, pedestrian lane refers to a pedestrian crossing, not a lane parallel to the traffic lanes of a road.
How to map
There were various discussions and attempts to define "surfaces designated for movement of pedestrians, which are separated from carriageway only by a line of paint (and possibly vertical sign)". There does not seem to be clear preferred consensus on how to map them.
Here are several ways (sorted by most popular on top) how people are mapping those as properties of an existing road (e.g. highway=residential):
sidewalk:right=lane- combining the key for sidewalks with the suffix and value ascycleway:right=lanefor bicycle lanes
sidewalk:right=yes+sidewalk:right:kerb=no- to indicate there is surface for pedestrians, but without kerb separating it from carriageway
footway:right=lane- Most often used as a property of separately mappedhighway=footway, which is problematic since one shouldn't use separate OSM ways for lanes which are not physically separated. But there is small number of cases wherefootway=*is mapped as a property of the road likehighway=residential, also by analogy withcycleway:right=lane. This is however also problematic, becausefootway=*normally refineshighway=footway(see Homonymous keys, a problem that similarly affectscycleway=*).
sidewalk=no+lanes=1+vehicle:lanes=yes|no+foot:lanes=no|designated+oneway:lanes=yes|no- no "sidewalk", but left lane is for vehicles, and right lane is for foot traffic (sometimesyesis used instead ofdesignated). Warning: :lanes extension is documented as supporting bicycles, but not foot traffic ("covers all kinds of lanes for all kind of vehicles and is not restricted to motorized traffic"), so it is problematic. Also note thatlanes=*counts only motor vehicle traffic (so no cycleways nor pedestrian lanes). Thus e.g. one motor vehicle lane + two pedestrian lanes + one cycleway lane should still be counted aslanes=1and not aslanes=4! Concerning the use offoot:lanes=*,access:lanes=*in the same meaning appeared in Proposal:Suffix both ways
lanes=1+lanes:forward=1+lanes:foot:backward=1- less complex variant of the above, only count the foot lanes, not their exact positions. See warning from previous point too!
pedestrian_lane=*- according to the (inactive) proposal - in the same way as sidewalks are marked as attributes of a polyvalent highway
shoulder=right+foot=use_sidepath(or +foot=designated) +sidewalk=no- some are of opinion that it is a walkable shoulder, and not a sidewalk, as sidewalk in their region is term to be used exclusively when it is separated from carriageway by physical barrier like a kerb or a treeline. (Note:taginfo can not count that, and even this overpass is just an estimate giving 16 ways that might possibly be that tagging)
foot:right=designated|lane- as an access right of a polyvalent highway, with documented valuedesignated(or undocumented valuelane). Value ofyesshould be avoided, although it seems to also be sometimes used, because it is much less clear - it only indicates that pedestrian is legally allowed by law to walk on the street (perhaps sharing the lane with cars), and not that there is designated lane for pedestrians.
Some people might even use some combination of those tags ("dual/double tagging").
Examples
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Austria:
26477877
26477877 -
Croatia:
375780925 375780925 -
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United States (Colorado):
17040545 17040545 -
United States (New York):
784514087 784514087
See also
External links
- Pedestrian Lane – Small Town and Rural Design Guide – Alta Planning + Design