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

[Florian Lohoff]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 12:13:30PM +0100, Dave F wrote:
> On 24/04/2022 16:56, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > 
> > So highway=footway, vehicle=agriculture is something i have seen tagged
> > and which perfectly reflected legal state on the ground.
> 
> No, it can't.
> 
> If vehicles are legally permitted along a way then it can't be a 'footway'.
> 
> In OSM a footway explicitly excludes motor vehicles.

It does so by default - if you put access tags on there it can. Thats
the full point. And its a very valid thing to do.

We tag by primary usage. If its a foot/cycleway by default and permits
usage as a track it is a very valid usage to tag

	highway=footway
	vehicle=agricultural

I have seen this a couple of times and for me it makes a lot of sense.
And i even have seen signs with "Combined Cycle/Footway" (German
Zeichen 240) and "Landwirtschaftlicher Verkehr frei" e.g. "Agricultural
traffic permitted"

highway=* is NOT about physical properties. Its about usage.

Flo
PS: Not that i think tagging anything with agricultural makes ANY sense 
as the farmer knows his farmland and does not care about access
tags in OSM, he/she will not even use it. Everybody else is not
affected.
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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