[Talk-GB] Can we tag the Imber roads better with access:conditional?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Chris Hodges wrote:
> it doesn't feel right to imply it's always closed, especially as
> similarly tagged roads in the area are always closed

(For reference, Imber is perhaps open twice a year, once in summer for around a week, once for a few days around New Year.)

access=private is the situation that applies for 96% of the year. It therefore makes more sense for this to be the base tag, rather than access=yes. As well as being more accurate more often, it "fails safe" in this scenario, which is pretty important given that for 96% of the time soldiers are firing guns and driving tanks here.

access:conditional= would be a good thing to add. You'd have to update it each year when the MoD publish opening times but that should be doable. It's a machine-readable tag and so whatever you put in there should be machine-readable.

> but is that exposed to users (for sake of argument,
> someone going to openstreetmap.com)?

Not directly, but you could always suggest it as a feature for the default osm-carto rendering. You can, of course, find out more about any feature on OSM using the "?" query features tool.

Richard
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