[Talk-GB] The designation=unclassifed_highway tag.

[Andy Townsend]

On 17/03/2021 07:44, Russ McDermid wrote:
>
> As a Trail Rider, I feel it's important to differentiate tracks & 
> paths that are UCR's, over the common or garden other unsurfaced rural 
> ways that are generally private.  I'm sure you are all aware of the 
> contentious legality of these, but this question is about tagging....
>
> Using Richard's 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/PRoW_Tagging 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/PRoW_Tagging> as a 
> guide, I have been using the tag *designation=unclassifed_highway*. 
> Another user has stated in a changeset comment, that this is just a 
> personal page, and I should refer to 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation#Rights_of_way_in_England_and_Wales 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation#Rights_of_way_in_England_and_Wales>
> Easy to criticise, but the latter, is not specific in any way, when it 
> comes to UCR's.  Damned if I do , damned if I don't, maybe ?
>

I think I wrote some of the text in "Unmaintained Public Highways" on 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation#Rights_of_way_in_England_and_Wales 
and it was really no more than an attempt to document how people were 
mapping them at the time that I wrote it.  I have no particular 
attachment to the way that that paragraph is currently written, and 
don't particularly disagree with anything on 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/PRoW_Tagging .

Since then, in mid-2018 I went through all the designations in use in 
the UK that might fit in that bucket and came up with the list at 
https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/master/style.lua#L574 
.  The results of that are visible at 
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=16&lat=-24.98976&lon=135.11001 
.  I'm not sure who else is using UCR information for rendering/routing 
- probably a few, but I suspect not many.

Best Regards,

Andy

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