[Tagging] correct access tagging for tourist attraction

[Tom Pfeifer]

Mateusz Konieczny wrote on 2015-01-03 18:02:
> Typical situation in Poland is that only residents may drive on some roads
> in housing estates - not everybody who wants to reach this place.
>
> So I am using vehicle=private - despite the fact that it is quite different from
> private as in "only one person may use this road". vehicle=destination
> is not a correct tagging here.

Yes I would do the same, for the following reason.

access=private would be defined as allowed for members of a predefined group,
which could range from a family, the residents of your estate, to a yacht club.
(This leaves open how a parcel is being delivered in such situation, but maybe
delivery is allowed.)

access=destination would be driven by your momentary intent to reach that
destination, without prior membership.

As for the routing software, a sophisticated router might not route through
traffic over access=private, but if the destination is on a private road it
might request confirmation from the user that he has the permission to go there.

tom


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> 2015-01-03 17:48 GMT+01:00 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net <mailto:richard at systemed.net>>:
>
>     John F. Eldredge wrote:
>     > That is how I had interpreted access=destination also. Just because
>     > it has a specific legal meaning in the UK doesn't mean the tag can't
>     > be used elsewhere in the world.
>
>     Absolutely - this is true of pretty much every highway= value and they, too,
>     have been adapted for use elsewhere.
>
>     I'd echo the call not to use access=private on housing estates. Last year I
>     was working on a (commercial) project to plan thousands of delivery routes
>     in the urban US, using OSM data and routing software. The only serious issue
>     we encountered was exactly this: the router couldn't plan journeys to
>     estates where each road was tagged with access=private.
>
>     We could have told the router to ignore access=private, but this would have
>     created wrong routes in other situations. Using access=destination would
>     have prevented this.
>
>     cheers
>     Richard
>