[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 12:41 Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 13:32, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:25 Fernando Trebien <fernando.trebien at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I never thought that emergency access would determine highway
> >> classification. It seems like a secondary use of the way, not its main
> >> use/purpose.
> >
> > motor_vehicle=no would exclude most emergency vehicles.
>
> I thought we were saying access tags like motor_vehicle are legal
> access, not physical access. I do not expect emergency vehicles to be
> excluded by legal access tags.
>

access=no by itself is absolute.  I would expect most roads in the DMZ
between the Koreas (that aren't too overgrown and weathered away from a
half century of being disused) would be an extreme example.  You're not
getting even fire or paramedic vehicles down it, period, it's not happening.

emergency=yes is the most common value, it's a modal/class exception.

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