[Talk-GB] Fire Roads (Leeds, Nottingham, etc)

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The tag that I have used for such things is fire_path=yes.

There are 4 uses of the tag in Nottingham and 2 in Aberdeen. There are
several others not tagged (including the two recent ones you mention), for
instance this one <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/43328389> where Suez
Street joins North Gate outside Port Said Villas (I wonder when these
streets were built).

The structures involved may be as illustrated by Paul. The older Nottingham
ones tend to have a zone of the wavy block paving which is 10-15ft long and
thus not a normal road in any sense. Other fire paths I've seen involve two
locked boom gates.

Jerry

On 2 February 2017 at 22:20, Paul Berry <pmberry2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Fire roads are an uncommon sight in the UK. They're sometimes signed as
> "fire lanes," but they're nothing to do with the designation in the US (and
> elsewhere) which is a parking restriction: https://wiki.
> openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:parking:lane and we're also not talking about
> the wide tracks in managed forests that act as a firebreak.
>
> I mean restricted highways like this one: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
> way/240007969 (whose source links to photo evidence).
>
> How do we map these? I assume service=emergency_access?
>
> Also, how is the embedded roughly-textured paving in that photo best
> represented?
>
> There are some similar ones in Nottingham, notably at Addington Road and
> Wimbourne Road there, though they're not mapped as such.
>
> Your advice and guidance gratefully received.
>
> Regards,
> *Paul*
>
>
>
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