I wanted to share some analysis on a currently undefined part of the PWG Schema (Silver Tier specifically) that I originally posted on the OSM-US Slack. Note that this was discussed previously on the OSM forum, but the analysis here was conducted independently before reading that to.

The key question here: What footway= type, other tags and geometry (separate way from the incoming sidewalk or not) should be specified for the connector ways between the sidewalk centerline and curb nodes?

Currently, the page states only “highway=? + ?=?”; its hard to see how highway= could be anything but highway=footway as nothing else seems more suitable and inventing a new highway type would be a major backward-compat break for little benefit; therefore, the decision then would be what footway=* tag to use.

Survey of options

Surveying the possible options (with pros and cons):

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