I'm getting annoyed with the difficulty of representing actual pedestrian movement on the map.

Here's an example I'm familiar with: According to standard routing software, the shortest way on foot between Réal-Cloutier Park, Saint-Émile and Beading Street is a convoluted circulation through either Laurentian Street or via a purported footpath, which is properly part of the "right of way" bordering a parking and leading to a single house and an entrance to the park (hence why I've re-tagged it as highway=service). In practice, the quickest way is obviously walking through Beauséjour School Playground.

Unfortunately, there is no actual ways to tell the software that this is possible. Not to mention that the park is fenced, and I had to move it away from Fréchette street because otherwise the community postbox there would be in the park according to the map. How to tell the software that you can walk from Lapierre and Welcome Street to the entrance, and from the other entrance to Fréchette?

None of the options feel like anything more than a hack: marking a footpath or service way would be both inaccurate and overdetailed, and adding the school parking as an area would be misleading (it's not public access, although the adjoining church parking is a designated park and ride) and not necessarily recognized by routing software. And even if any of these options were implemented, there is no guarantee whatsoever the software will detect the possibiliy of going through the playground.

*wheezes a bit* That was a fingerful to type.