Die separate Markierung wurde ersetzt durch das sidewalk-Attribut des highway, wie im Openstreetmap-Wiki beschrieben:

Sidewalk as refinement to a highway
The simplest method is to tag the associated highway with sidewalk=both/left/right/no (none is also used synonymously to no) as appropriate for those sections of sidewalk that are parallel with the carriageway and to use highway=footway where the path diverges from the carriageway. Designations of 'left' and 'right' are relative to the direction of the way.

Attributes of sidewalks are sometimes added as further tags on the highway, for example:

sidewalk:left:width=3 m
sidewalk:left:kerb=raised
sidewalk:both:surface=paving_stones
This mapping method is not providing information about geometry of sidewalk itself (including lack of information how far from highway=* line representing center of road sidewalk is located). On the other hand it makes possible to easily check whatever given road has sidewalks.

Note that it is extremely hard to correctly render place where a pedestrian route diverges from highway where it was mapped using sidewalk tag.

If sidewalk tags on the highway are used instead, free crossing across road at any location may be very easily implemented in routing programs. This function is desirable by many people, and is significantly more complicated to achieve for places where sidewalks are tagged as separate ways. Conversely, it is recommended to represent the sidewalk as a separate way, if the sidewalk is not just attached with a kerb but separated by a road verge or other barriers, to prevent routers from assuming free crossing.

Das left/right/both/none-Attribut wurde abschnittsgenau eingetragen.