[Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality

[Adam Snape]

Hi Tom,

I'd consider this particular proposed use of highway=no to mean "there is a
public highway here but there's no visible path on the ground" to be a
somewhat country-specific and counter-intuitive tagging practice. It's
certainly being suggested here as a solution to a country-specific issue
regarding the mapping of England and Wales' rights of way network.

Perhaps other countries do use highway=no in this manner but it isn't well
documented and I could hardly blame consumers of OSM data from not
interpreting it correctly.

Kind regards,

Adam

On Tue, 5 May 2020, 09:59 Tom Hukins, <tom at eborcom.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 11:08:16PM +0100, Adam Snape wrote:
> > Most data consumers won't be expecting this highly country-specific
> > tagging of highway=no
>
> Why do you consider "highway=no" country-specific?  Taginfo suggests
> it's used across Europe and occasionally elsewhere:
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/highway=no#map
>
> Tom
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