[Talk-GB] Some newbie questions

[Andy Robinson]

Keith Sharp wrote:
>Sent: 04 March 2007 9:36 AM
>To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Some newbie questions
>
>On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 21:44 +0000, Keith Sharp wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 08:23 +0000, John McKerrell wrote:
>> > > 2) How should I mark up a fire path?  A fire path is where a road is
>> > > blocked to non-emergency service traffic, often using raised kerbs
>> > and
>> > > no entry signs.
>> > >
>> >
>> > What is it used for generally, could it be a considered a
>> > pedestrianised road with access permissions for emergency vehicles?
>> > I'm not completely sure on this one but I'm sure others will have
>> > more ideas.
>>
>> In Glasgow fire paths are used to block the ends of residential streets
>> to stop them becoming over used short cuts.  The idea is that sufficient
>> obstacles are placed in the road (along with signage) so that only fire
>> engines can pass.  In reality most cars are prevented from passing (I've
>> seen a BMW lose its exhaust on a fire path) but vans and lorries still
>> sometimes bounce across the kerb stones.  Effectively the road is closed
>> to all except for pedestrians, bicycles, and fire engines.
>>
>> If this hasn't cleared things up let me know and I'll take some photos
>> of the one outside my window.
>
>Photo here:
>
>	http://www.passback.co.uk/tmp/firepath.jpg
>

That feature looks to me like I'd tag it as a node. It's not a long feature,
it's more like a cattle grid or similar, which means that rendering it as an
icon similar to a gate would work. Perhaps highway=emergency_access or
something similar on the node? 

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>Keith.
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