[Tagging] dog=yes for drinking water

[Zeke Farwell]

In my experience, access is one of the most misunderstood tagging schemes
in OSM.  Many mappers do not understand that foot/bicycle/horse/dog/etc=yes
is supposed to only specify that the noted mode is legally allowed. *=yes
is instead commonly used to indicate some combination of usability, intent,
and allowed access for the denoted mode.

If this distinction between legal access and suitability/intent is
important, I'd suggest we work to establish a new, clearer tagging scheme.
For example legal access could be:

access:bicycle=yes
access:dog=yes

And intent/suitability could be:

for:bicycle=yes
for:dog=yes


On the other hand if the distinction isn't actually that important we could
just accept and document the fact that access tagging is already used to
indicate a mix of usability, intent, and permissibility.

--
Zeke



On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 10:03 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> sent from a phone
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> > On 6 Jul 2022, at 15:43, Marc_marc <marc_marc at mailo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I regularly see horse=no's on paths without any prohibition signs
>
>
> horse, more clearly than “dog”, is defined as a legal access tag for
> riders, if there isn’t a prohibitive sign it could still be forbidden
> implicitly - or the tag is wrong (if it is not forbidden but someone
> thought it was unsuitable)
>
> Cheers Martin
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