Tag:highway=footway

highway = footway
Description
For designated footpaths, i.e. mainly/exclusively for pedestrians.
Rendering in OSM Carto
Group: Highways
Used on these elements
Implies
foot=designated Access-Restrictions Maxspeeds
Useful combination
name=* access=* footway=* lit=* surface=* wheelchair=*
Status: de facto
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Use the highway=footway tag for mapping minor paths used mainly or exclusively by pedestrians.

For wider pedestrianised streets, typically lined with shops or commercial buildings use highway=pedestrian. For paths used by a variety of non-motorised traffic highway=path may be better and for ones primarily used by cyclists consider highway=cycleway (although where a route is primarily available for pedestrians but is also usable by bicycles you can use highway=footway and bicycle=yes). For rough routes that can be used with a motorised vehicle consider highway=track. For tracks and gravel paths which are not designated can be captured with highway=path + access=*-Tags and classified with sac_scale=* and trail_visibility=*.

For sidewalks that run on one or both sides a road (known as pavements or confusingly 'footways' in the UK) either add sidewalk=left/right/both/separate to the feature describing to road or where the sidewalk is nor simply running parallel to the carriageway then describe it using highway=footway - see below for details.

How to map

To map a footway nothing else than a simple way is required. Add the highway=footway tag to it and add a name=* if appropriate.

Add access=* restriction tags if appropriate. See Default Access-Restrictions.

If the footway is associated with a road then add a footway=sidewalk tag.

Important!!!

The way footway=* or highway=footway must join with another kind of way, for motivation see beginners guide step 5, or voice Junctions of the editing standards and conventions of OSM.

Example photos	Example tracking	Referring tag	Comment
		Riference S letter. +highway=footway (defines the way). +foot=designated (designed to footway) +surface=* (defines paving). +name=* (only if present, optional). +wheelchair=no (if in the presence of pavement or stretch difficult for the disabled, put "no"). +access=permissive (in the sections of private property where the passage is permitted, recommended to check, if possible order to avoid uncomfortable litigation).	In case of footway no is along the highway=*, but you submit into an area, for example in a park, use tag highway=pedestrian, which we refer for the appropriate information.
		Reference for the sidewalk S letter. +highway=footway (defines the way). +footway=sidewalk (specific for sidewalk). +foot=yes +surface=* (defines paving). +name=* (only if present, optional). +wheelchair=no (if in the presence of pavement or stretch difficult for the disabled, put "no"). +access=permissive (in the sections of private property where the passage is permitted, recommended to check, if possible order to avoid uncomfortable litigation). +cycleway=* (if there is a cycle path on the same way, see the appropriate tag in the specific).	Reference B letter If between the street and the sidewalk or pedestrian, there is the presence of barrier, this is a way in itself, defines tag barrier=*, or if the streets is the presence of a grass between the highway=footway and the highway=*, please refer to the tag landuse=*.
		Reference for the tags, S - C - C1 - C2 letters. +highway=footway (defines the way). +footway=sidewalk (specific for sidewalk). +foot=yes +surface=* (defines paving). +name=* (only if present, optional). +wheelchair=no (if in the presence of pavement or stretch difficult for the disabled, put "no"). +access=permissive (in the sections of private property where the passage is permitted, recommended to check, if possible order to avoid uncomfortable litigation). +cycleway=* (if there is a cycle path on the same way, see the appropriate tag in the specific). +highway=footway (C - crosswalk). +highway=crossing (C1 - to put on the node that intersects the street with the pedestrian crossing). +kerb=* (C2 - dto put on the node start/finish crossing if there is presence of facilitation on the sidewalk, for example inclined, see the information of the tag). +crossing=* (C - Definisce le restrizioni dell'attraversamento pedonale, per esempio, controllato da semafori). +crossing_ref=* (C - defines design of crossing, for example, stripes).

See also

• Path controversy gives explanation how this is different from / similar to highway=path
• sidewalk=*
• footway=sidewalk
• footway=crossing
• UK public rights of way

Related terms: ‹ footway ›