Talk:Key:foot traffic
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Verifiability of this tag
Hey, this tag seems to be highly problematic in many respects:
- Just _how_ are we supposed to verify this tag: what is exactly the difference between 'medium' and 'high' foot traffic?
- Someone living in a small village and someone from a big metropolis probably have widely different ideas about what "high" foot traffic is. You're gonna have to specify more precisely what "high" or "low" means if you want this tag to be viable
- Isn't foot traffic quite variable? What with situations where foot traffic surges at certain moments, but is quite calm at other times - e.g. with a religious place having their weekly service? Is this tag not derivable from highways nearby?
- I don't think they fit the OSM-mantra of verifiability - which explicitly mentions that e.g. 'the number of cars passing by' is not suited for OSM. We had a similar, but lesser controversy with smoothness
- Has this tag been discussed with the community before? Was there a proposal? I cannot seem to find it.
- What about this mechanical edit, changing many 'traffic' values into 'foot_traffic'?
- This tag is mostly used on bicycle parkings. I don't think that many pedestrians walk over or via bicycle parkings. Even if this tag were to be used, a bicycle parking is the wrong place to add this to.
- This page seems like a copy-past from the Traffic=* page which has the same concerns
- It seems like this was added to https://rackfinder.app/ which has been generating these tags, and that this is the only source of those tags .
Pietervdvn (talk) 00:37, 2 March 2024 (UTC)