[Talk-GB] Byways (Was: Rights of way - Image vote)

[Rob Nickerson]

I'm pretty happy to add that any way signposted as either a "Byway" "Public
Byway" or "Byway Open to All Traffic" should be tagged as
designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic as long as it also has a red arrow.
Unlike footpaths there is little chance of a landowner putting up a sign
for a "byway" unless it is a public right of way. There can also be no
confusion caused by long distance routes (as with footpaths).

Cheers,
Rob

>On 12/05/12 13:02, Philip Barnes wrote:
>
>>* They do vary between highway authorities, but well worth getting some*>>* photos of samples. The one thing waymarks have in common, and I can only*>>* claim knowledge of England and Wales here is that a public footpath has*>>* yellow arrows, public bridleways have blue arrows and the hardest to*>>* find of all are red arrows, used on B.O.T.A.Ts.*>
>Not a waymarker, but the signposts are fairly rare too; "Public Byway"
>or just "Byway" is the normal wording:
>
>  https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:UK_Public_Byway_signpost.jpg
>  http://osm.org/go/eutqlptvf--?m
>
>and I don't think we could expect the waymarkers to say any more.
>
>
>Predictably enough, the thin little road the one above points at is
>blocked off at one end for larger vehicles:
>
>  https://imgur.com/Tx9hI
>
>To complicate matters further, that's a No Motor Vehicles sign under the
>graffiti which presumably reflects a TRO filed somewhere in the bowels
>of the local town hall. It's only applicable to the plugged end. A sign
>on the far end warns of there being no sane turning places.
>
>So it's not open to all traffic at all, and the sign doesn't call it
>"open to all traffic", but it should be tagged
>designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic anyway :D
>
>--
>Andrew Chadwick
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