[OSM-newbies] Fence in middle of street

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:44 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is this such an issue? When you put a bridge in a way, you have to
> split the highway at both ends of the bridge, yet no one complains

We're just being loose about the word "split". I assume Pieren meant
it to mean the two ways are still connected at one node, but Dave F
interpreted it as the two ways being entirely separate.

(When I talked about splitting the way where a fence crosses it, I did
mean the two ways being entirely separate. If there's no way to cross
the fence, there's no need to route across it.)

> I found it rather interesting to note that in the UK, property owners
> have to assert the right of ownership on their lands, otherwise the
> public can wander about it at will. I guess that's the difference
> between a country with a couple hundred years of history versus
> thousands of years of history. We came in and pretended that there was
> no history in North America, and we could divvy it up from a clean
> slate.

Dunno, I hear* that in parts of the US, property owners have to post
"no trespassing signs" on unimproved land if they don't want the
public on it. (Improved land, including driveways, is considered
automatically posted.) Off-topic anyway.

Steve
* From people who like to stealth camp a lot in forests there, and
debate where it's legal to camp.