[talk-au] Adding river crossings to Guidelines "road quality / 4wd-only"?

[Andy Townsend]

On 8/10/22 03:06, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:

> Cleared a note to add a ford / river-crossing to a road in Cape York: 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1025490234, & added both a "ford" 
> node, & also changed the actual river crossing to a track with 4wd 
> only & similar tags.
>
> Wondering if we should include those sort of details in the Guidelines? eg
>
> 4wd_only=extreme
>
> bicycle=no
>
> foot=no
>
> highway=track
>
> horse=no
>
> motor_vehicle=yes
>
> smoothness=horrible
>
> tracktype=grade8
>
> & possibly even hazard=wild_animals + animals=crocodile!
>
>

(not from AU or Queensland but)

To add to what Ian has said already, the foot, horse, bicycle etc. are 
legal access tags - if that mode of transport isn't legally permitted to 
cross there then e.g. horse=no would be correct, but otherwise not.

A tag such as horse_scale can be used to suggest how appropriate 
something is for that mode of transport, much like the example already 
uses "4wd_only=extreme" alongside "motor_vehicle=yes".

Personally I'd be very reticent about tagging "smoothness" remotely as well.

Best Regards,

Andy



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