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

[Mark Pulley]

On 2 Jul 2016, at 3:30 pm, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


I have been using

motor_vehicle=no (or motorcar=no / motorcycle=no)
foot=yes (or foot=designated)

and depending on other tags

bicycle=no (or bicycle=designated if specifically signposted)

Mark P.