<html><head></head><body>On the other hand, a road labeled as "use at your own risk" may well be one that is not currently being maintained, meaning that you have increased odds of finding it impassable due to washouts, landslides, and the like. I have seen some one-lane tracks where any type of blockage would mean you would have to back up for a long ways before reaching a point where you could turn around.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />Volker Schmidt <voschix@gmail.com> writes:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I am sure this has been asked many times before:<br />How do I tag correctly a path/track/road that bears the label "access at<br />your own risk"</blockquote><br />Don't use the access tag :-) That's about right of access, and that<br />sort of sign is usually either:<br /><br />a real warning that it's physically difficult (which is separate from<br />'no trespassing'<br /><br />or<br /><br />some notion like "road legally closed. proceed at your own risk" that<br />shows up in roads under construction when really it's obvious that<br />it's intended they still be used, but there's some disclaimer of the<br />usual liability. Connecticut, US is notorious for this. ("state<br />legally closed" is the old joke from 10+ years ago)<br /><br />So I'd say that each kind of situation
probably should get its own tag -<br />the above two situations are totally different.<br /><br />A 'hazard' tag was suggested. I would say it's wrong to use a hazard<br />tag because there's a "this is scary" sign, rather than it actually<br />being hazardous.<br /><br />I'd try to avoid interpreting and use somemthing like<br /><br />notice=at_own_risk<br /><br />which keeps OSM out of the interpretation/liabiltiy-discussion business<br />- instead just noting that there is a sign that says this sort of thing.<br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr /><br />Tagging mailing list<br />Tagging@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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