[OSM-talk-be] Designation=*

[Ben Laenen]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to use the current activity on the mailing list to solve a few 
tagging issues...

First up: the F99a/F99b/F99c traffic signs (i.e. these signs 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Eimai/Belgian_Roads#Roads_and_paths_signed_with_traffic_sign_F99a.2FF99b.2FF99c 
)

We need an extra tag that says these roads have that specific traffic sign to 
determine the exact access rules. I currently just use traffic_sign=*, but 
that may be a problem if there are more traffic signs at once. Hence I'd like 
to look at the designation=* tag (see 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation ). But the problem is that 
the name our government gave to these roads is basically unusable for a tag. 
We can just translate it and make something like 
"designation=road_reserved_for_agricultural_vehicles_pedestrians_cyclists_and_horse_riders" 
but yeah, I guess you see the problem with a tag like that... But I have no 
better idea...



Second problem, and somewhat the same: the nature reserves (this message 
concerns about Flanders only, I don't know the regulations about this in 
Wallonia, but we have to keep in mind that there are different rules about 
this over there, and in Brussels of course). The paths and roads in nature 
reserves are signed with these kind of signs: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Eimai/Flemish_Nature_Reserves
Now, we need some way to tag that these roads belong to a nature reserve, 
again to correctly know the access rules on these roads from the tags. This is 
also an excellent candidate to use the designation=* tag. I'm personally 
thinking about "designation=flemish_nature_reserve" (the tag has to include 
somehow that it belongs to Flanders, but maybe it's not necessary if you think 
boundaries are enough to determine this, so we can just use 
designation=nature_reserve).


Let your voices be heard
Ben