It turns out that shoulder tag is used in a confusing way and makes hard to edit/use this data.
There is no clear way to mark something as full shoulder (enough to provide space for emergency parking) and something that is at most fitting or a walking pedestrian.
All of that is quite confusing, making hard to clarify situation for authors of editors as @westnordost discovered.
See for example
Shoulder quest is unclear · Issue #3613 · streetcomplete/StreetComplete · GitHub add shoulder overlay · Issue #4340 · streetcomplete/StreetComplete · GitHub Shoulder quest only on motorway and trunk in the Netherlands · Issue #4617 · streetcomplete/StreetComplete · GitHub
Posting this as I want to make people more aware that this is space that can benefit from some new tagging scheme.
As usually, it is too late to redefine shoulder tag - but maybe new ones can be added to make it possible to clearly tag and use this data?
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Ce sujet de discussion accompagne la publication sur https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/shoulder-tag-is-confusing/5185