[Tagging] Examples at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access

Colin Smale colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Fri May 29 11:38:11 UTC 2020


On 2020-05-29 13:27, Paul Allen wrote:

> On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 11:32, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> [lengthy snip] 
> 
>> You refer to a specific case - "when visiting the house". It would be unlawful if you were just out for a stroll, without the intention of visiting the house. Access=permissive would imply that it would be OK to walk up the driveway to have a look around the garden, and that is not the case.
> I feel that access=permissive is not entirely useful for driveways.  How 
> do you get permission?  Is it legally acceptable to walk along the driveway 
> to the house to ask permission to walk along the driveway to the house in 
> order to talk to the householder about something?  It all gets a bit 
> recursive.

Indeed, access=permissive makes no sense for a private driveway.
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