[Talk-GB] Access tag on public rights of way

[Robert Skedgell]

Adding access=no changes the rendering on OSM-Carto from red dashes to 
feint grey ones, reducing the utility of the map tiles. I'd consider it 
at best troll tagging for the renderer, at worst vamdalism (probably by 
NIMBYs taking a proprietorial attitude to the public realm).

Being more charitable, it could just be the way that iD invites new 
users to check or uncheck all possible access modes, no matter how 
relevant they are likely to be to the highway type.

A user did this to a lot of PRoWs in Essex a couple of years ago. I 
removed the redundant access=no tags and added any missing PRoW tags I 
could find via https://osm.mathmos.net/prow/progress/essex/

On 30/07/2022 20:13, Alex Wardle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking at recent changes around the Worcester area and noticed
> that a user has been changing some of the footpaths and bridleways and
> adding access=no tag to them whilst leaving the a foot=designated tag.
> 
> I was just wondering if this is considered the correct use of the
> access=no tag and if this should be added to these ways?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex