<div dir="auto">Personally, in the absence of signs, I don't put a general overall access tag on rights of way. I usually (based on a survey) tag rights other than those included in the Right of Way are private rather than no, and sometimes permissive. I don't like blanket edits where people assume that because something is a public footpath for example, all other access is forbidden (it isn't necessarily, there may be permissive access for some modes and residents will often be allowed access, corresponding to something like vehicle=private or destination). <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On highway=footway, I tend to see tags like vehicle=no as redundant - the default access for highway=footway does not include bicycles or other vehicles <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions#United_Kingdom">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions#United_Kingdom</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For example, there are a number of public footpaths on tracks/service roads near me where cyclists have permissive access and motorists have destination access - automatically tagging every non-designated mode as "no" would not capture these. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On the other hand, assuming that bicycles have access on a permissive bridleway without a survey is dangerous - I know of at least one that I have had to change because the signs denied access for cyclists. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jon</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 30 Jul 2022, 20:15 Alex Wardle, <<a href="mailto:awardle.comp@gmail.com">awardle.comp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I was looking at recent changes around the Worcester area and noticed<br>
that a user has been changing some of the footpaths and bridleways and<br>
adding access=no tag to them whilst leaving the a foot=designated tag.<br>
<br>
I was just wondering if this is considered the correct use of the<br>
access=no tag and if this should be added to these ways?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Alex<br>
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