Marking roads as unsafe for walking?
There are several roads near me where it's legal to walk - but where I know that walking would be extremely dangerous because of no footways, narrow carriageways and fast traffic. Is there a way to flag these that would help OSM-based routing services like Strava and Komoot stop recommending them? I know the local area well enough to ignore Strava when it suggests I run along these roads, but I fear for people who don't, and assume the route will be okay
Some people use access keys with the value "discouraged" for this according to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#List_of_possible_values
I agree with that page that it's better to tag objective reality: sidewalk=no, maxspeed=100, etc., and let routing software figure out to avoid routing pedestrians along something tagged with that.
@br3d https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/16685382#map=15%2F51.55238%2F-0.74677
You could use a hazard=* tag
That way has no hazard tag?
And it also misuses note tag, which is meant for information to other mappers, not information to data users (perhaps description could be used; not sure, I don't use that often since freeform text will go mostly unused when there's usually tags available for indicating conditions)
@lucg That was my edit a very long time ago as an example of a dangerous road, AFAIK before hazard=* had much if any usage, and possibly before some wrote on the wiki about a, possibly false, distinction between note=* and description=*.
I also note it now has maxspeed=30 mph, however, I never walked along it after my first experience.
sidewalk=no, maxspeed and width should already do a lot