[Tagging] Small gate only for foot access

[osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au]

Just because it’s not as often used in this way doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

 

It would be in line with the usage I’ve seen in the access:lanes tag, e.g. access:lanes=yes|yes|bus or access:lanes=bicycle|yes|hsv

 

I’m not questioning that:

access=no

foot=yes

 

is correct to allow access for foot traffic only.

 

It’s just that from the usage that I’ve seen, access=foot should have the same meaning.

 

Obviously, the moment you want to define access for more than a single branch of the access tree, or you want to be able to specify an access level that’s different than yes, you will need to use the individual tags.

 

From: Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 20 April 2018 21:07
To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Small gate only for foot access

 

On 20/04/2018 11:26, osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au <mailto:osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au>  wrote:

I believe the correct shorthand for access=no foot=yes would be just access=foot ?


That's not the way that access tags generally work.

There are 784 at taginfo: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/access=foot 

but it's much lower than the other values: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/access#values

which is usually an indication that "that's not the right tag for that".

The access section in the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Aaccess isn't the clearest of sections, but it does try and explain how these work.

Best Regards,

Andy

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