[OSM-talk-be] Usage of "access=designated" in Belgium

[Ben Laenen]

Yeah, I think it's good to co-operate for making some kind 
of "framework" to make standards, now there seem to be several efforts 
all over the place.

However, differences between countries are big, and therefore I think 
each country should still define their own specific rules inside that 
framework. It can be about default maximum speeds 
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed), 
default access rules 
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions), 
vehicle types that are used in a country, highway classification or 
other things, these can only be decided at the level where the traffic 
rules are actually made, so usually at country level.

But I think that even just making this framework will be huge. I was 
trying to standardize the access restrictions once 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Access_restrictions 
(I've been neglecting that page the past months). The idea there was 
basically to have these formal access rules (and at the same time have 
something that's easily extendable and can eventually handle *all* 
situations (or better said: allow all situations through extensions) 
where the current tags certainly don't allow us to tag anything that's 
even remotely complicated). Then I thought that we should define all 
the tags we currently have (say access=destination) in this formal way 
as a default for the world, and finally enable countries to redefine 
them, so access=destination wouldn't allow all cyclists in the UK but 
they do in Belgium). But the page was becoming huge and creating the 
base structure is a tough job if you have to keep all possible 
situations in mind. But if this work group will get off, this may be 
one of the things to look into.

Ben


On Sunday 24 August 2008, filip wolters wrote:
> Ik stel voor dat we samenwerken met Nederland. Er wordt daar een
> werkgroep opgericht om allerhande zaken beter te omschrijven, taggen
> beter te definiëren, enz. Zie
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-nl/2008-August/006816.h
>tml Dit om routering beter te laten werken en samenwerking is ook goed
> om versnippering tegen te gaan.