<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jun 26, 2022, at 5:57 PM, David Vidovic via Talk-au <<a href="mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org" class="">talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">In regards to PSV (Public Service Vehicles), I understand this encompasses buses/coaches.<br class=""><br class="">For a "bus only" way such as a bus bay, I see common tagging [access=no] + [psv=yes] used.<br class=""><br class="">Does anyone know if a Taxi is considered a "public service vehicle" and therefore able use the busy bay way? Or does [access=no] inherently prevent this and it would need a separate [taxi=yes] tag?<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">It might be controversial to say so, but "taxis" meant (until maybe a decade ago, with the uprising of the Uber's of the world, which are, in many places, "not <i class="">de jure</i> taxis" but are rather "<i class="">de facto</i> taxis") a legally-regulated car-for-hire (not "rental, YOU drive," rather "hail one" (or solicit a ride for a fare at a taxi stand)).<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A bus is clearly a "municipal vehicle" (public service vehicle, or some widely-agreed upon flavor). A "taxi," well, if it isn't what we used to call a "yellow cab" (sometimes municipal, sometimes a "charter contract" medallion-holding, regulated by both state- and municipal-level government oversight / regulation), it might be an Uber or Lyft, or whatever. I realize that's a "rabbit hole" down which this tag / semantic goes, but I don't want the distinctions to be ignored.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As to whether "bus bay" includes "taxis," well, I wouldn't say so. "Around here" (northern California, USA), we have "separate" infrastructure for these: different lanes, different rules, different expectations by the users of the transportation service.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Careful: this is a wide semantic. I realize I cross the "in the States" and / "down under" boundary (being from USA, yet posting to talk-au), yet, OSM is a global project. True, you can make regional exceptions to tagging, but I'm just saying: be careful. So far, so good.</div></body></html>