[talk-au] Legal access to Public land ...

[Warin]

On 7/2/2016 9:26 AM, Frank wrote:
> OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been
> changed on 1 July 2016 by Swanilli to say that the public has a legal 
> right to access public land ...
>
> No!
>
> The NSW NPSW do legally exclude the public from certain areas and at 
> least vehicles from certain tracks.
>
> The NSW, WA, SA and Victorian State Forests legally exclude the public 
> too .. think about the car rallies held from time to time.
>
> Even 'public roads' get closed to the public from time to time... how 
> else would the Bathurst Road Race be held?????
>
> I have remove the offending statement from the wiki. I did attempt to 
> contact the user .. but the wiki page has no send a message' type 
> thiny ...  hence this message.

Found the contact ... made comments on 2 changesets.
Confusion may have arisen over plain English understanding of
access=no

But the tags are
access=no
foot=yes

meaning you can access by foot but nothing else... in the OSM data base.



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