[RFC] Feature Proposal - One-way for pedestrians

The voting period for the proposal ended on 31 December.

35 people voted in favour, 19 against, and there were 5 abstentions. That is a 65% approval rate, less than the 75% required by the proposal process.

I still consider it a success in the sense that it’s made more people aware of a practical tagging issue: the way many people are currently tagging pedestrian one-ways (by adding oneway=yes to highway=footway or =path) is being ignored by most pedestrian routers. The community is split on whether or not or when exactly the oneway=yes tag should affect pedestrian routing.

I hope the discussion will lead to better tagging (which for me means adding oneway:foot more often, for added clarity) and to more nuanced tag interpretation by data consumers, so that eventually we’ll find a way to tag pedestrian one-ways that is accepted by both mappers and data consumers…

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