Hi,

Thanks for your comment. Let me clarify the reasoning behind this changeset.

Before my edit, the roads within the ZTL had inconsistent and often unclear tagging — a mix of residential, unclassified, and some pedestrian. I aimed to bring coherence by aligning the tagging across the area.

The choice of highway=pedestrian was deliberate and, in my opinion, appropriate. According to the OSM wiki (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpedestrian), this tag is used for roads “designated mainly or exclusively for pedestrians,” where “vehicle traffic is generally restricted.” That matches the character of these streets in Vicenza’s ZTL: people commonly walk in the middle of the carriageway, even when sidewalks exist, and motor vehicle access is tightly controlled.

This tagging practice is widely adopted in the historic centers of most cities in the Veneto region, where you can see many pedestrian streets.

I’m open to constructive discussion, but your comment doesn’t make clear what you propose instead — just that pedestrian is wrong and the previous situation was also wrong. If you have a concrete alternative in mind that improves tagging clarity while staying consistent with common mapping practice, ground truth, and provides a coherent solution for the entire ZTL, I’d be happy to consider it.

Best