[Tagging] access=designated - what do we think it means?

[Tod Fitch]

On Apr 11, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Philip Barnes wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 17:28 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote:
>> Currently, there are 41,000 things tagged "access=designated (1).  I can 
>> understand what "=designated" means for a specifc transport type (foot, 
>> bicycle, etc.) but not "access".  The wiki (2) also doesn't know.
>> 
>> What do we think that someone means when they tag something as 
>> access=designated?
> 
> I have always understood it to mean access to certain vehicles/people.
> The it will be what is shown on a signpost, in fact I was expecting the
> road after Fairholmes to be motor_vehicle=designated as blue badge
> holders can use it.
> 
> Phil (trigpoint)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> 
>> (1) http://taginfo.osm.org/tags/access=designated#overview
>> 
>> (2) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aaccess%3Ddesignated

This is how I understood and have used it.

-Tod

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