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

[SK53]

Looks like a documented on the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fire_Path

On 3 February 2017 at 11:15, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.open
>> streetmap.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/w
>> ay/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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