id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
19862	"Warning ""foot=yes is unnecessary for highway=footway"" is incorrect"	SomeoneElse2	team	"I've just run the JOSM validator on an area including https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/757988391/history and it has warned ""foot=yes is unnecessary for highway=footway"" .

This is wrong, as in this area (North York Moors, England) ""foot=yes"" is _not_ the default - a footway across private land in the area would by default be private unless:

o access is permissive, in which case ""foot=permissive"" would be the correct tag

o it's CROW Act access land, in which case ""foot=yes"" is best tagged explicitly (this is actually the case here but the access land boundary isn't well signposted)

o it's a designated ""public_footpath"" or similar.

In countries with ""allemansrätten"" or equivalent I can somewhat see the logic, but even then removing tags that another mapper has explicitly added seems like a bad idea.

Problem first spotted due to changes in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/79116201 .

JOSM version 17013, downloaded just now.
"	defect	closed	normal	20.11	Core validator		fixed	unnecessary access tag