[Tagging] How to tag: Legally separated ways

[Colin Smale]

Not in the UK or the Netherlands at least. They can do whatever they see 
fit in the course of duty, especially with lights and sirens. Of course 
they can be called to account if anything goes wrong. But a policeman 
chasing a criminal who turns the wrong way up a one way street is going 
to follow them and is not going to take a longer route just because of a 
little no-entry sign. Maxspeed, turn restrictions, oneways, 
waiting/stopping/parking restrictions, traffic signals - you name it, 
they can (and do) ignore it when required (sometimes only under certain 
circumstances such as life-and-death).

Having said that there are certain restrictions which they would do well 
to follow, such as maxheight and maxwidth. If it don't fit, it don't 
fit, with or without blue lights!

Colin

On 15/10/2012 20:26, Svavar Kjarrval wrote:
> I think most laws require that even emergency vehicles observe
> restrictions like oneway streets. If there are any restrictions which
> can be broken in case of emergency vehicles, I think they'd program
> their routing software to them.
>
> - Svavar Kjarrval
>
> On 15/10/12 18:16, Eckhart Wörner wrote:
>> Hi Colin,
>>
>> Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012, 20:08:01 schrieb Colin Smale:
>>> I don't understand why emergency vehicles are so important in this
>>> discussion. In the first place they have wide-ranging exemptions from
>>> traffic rules, which (let's be honest) we are never going to tag in OSM.
>>> Secondly they are never going to be relying on OSM data (or indeed any
>>> normal sat-nav) for lane-precise routing. They are trained to use their
>>> eyes and brains to make split-second decisions on what is safe and an
>>> acceptable risk under the circumstances of that moment. Thirdly, they
>>> will be about 0.0000000001% of the potential users of OSM data - why
>>> should we compromise "service" to the vast majority of real users for
>>> the hypothetical benefit of the very few.
>> I fully agree with you; if we were going to map for emergency vehicles, we'd probably have to add
>> oneway:conditional = no @ emergency
>> for almost all oneway roads first.
>>
>> Eckhart
>>
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