I love the project idea, unfortunately I had bad experiences with the community. I had lots of fun walking my neighbourhood to perform quests in the app until like one or two other users started reverting my edits. I checked their comments and it was some weird pedantic arguments, like I shouldn't mark a street as not walkable because there is no official sign that prohibits walking; the fact that it's basically a highway with no sidewalk would not matter.
I ended up digging through the OSM wiki for definitions and rules to argue my case but in the end it felt very much like people on a power trip insistent on getting their way. It has ruined the fun in StreetComplete for me and I haven't participated since.
It's not pedantic, it's just the way it is. For OSM to be valuable it needs to be consistent. There are many tags available but the "you can't walk here" tag is about whether you have a right to walk there. There are many highways you wouldn't want to walk on, but there are other tags to indicate that, like speed limit and presence of footpaths etc.
Saying a path can't be walked has pretty large consequences since routing apps will refuse to use them for walking directions. A highway with no footpath does seem extreme enough to warrant refusing to route for walking directions, but otherwise it's best to not block walking unless it's literally impossible or illegal to walk there.
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I ended up digging through the OSM wiki for definitions and rules to argue my case but in the end it felt very much like people on a power trip insistent on getting their way. It has ruined the fun in StreetComplete for me and I haven't participated since.
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