[Tagging] Meaning of access=yes on highway=footway?

[Florian Lohoff]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:15:38AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Basically I'm saying that a router should only use a way if both are
> true:
>   - the way is physically suitable
>   - the permissions are ok
> 
> (Also highway=path should not be presumed to be passable by vehicles;
> often it is too uneven or too rocky.)

But isnt it that we dont put any physical apperance into 
our highway=* tagging?  We tag what a way is used for, and probably
legal to be used for. Physical appearance shows up in lanes, surface,
smoothness, sidewalk, cycleway, lit, shoulder and the like.

So highway=footway, vehicle=agriculture is something i have seen tagged
and which perfectly reflected legal state on the ground.

In this case i dont think its the routers fault. Somebody tagged that
thats a footway and everyone may use it.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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