[talk-ph] access tagging on private subdivisions

[maning sambale]

On 11/20/08, Ian Haylock <haylocki at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> private subdivisions are one of my pet hates. I've even been chased out of
> one subdivision by a security guard whilst out mapping with the kids.

Me too.  I almost got bitten by 2 dogs when mapping such areas.

> I'm up for tagging the roads as private access, but I think routing software
> such as navit will ignore streets that have a hightway=gate tag.
>
> So putting a node  this tag on subdivision access roads will achieve the
> same result, but will be less work, and also display a gate on the map to
> show the viewer that the road is not accessible.

I think I'll do both access and gate.  There is also a new tagging
suggesting to use barrier=gate instead of highway=gate.  Same thing on
a different key.

keep on mapping!


> Cheers, Ian
>
> --- On Thu, 20/11/08, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> Subject: [talk-ph] access tagging on private subdivisions
> To: "talk-ph" <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org>
> Date: Thursday, 20 November, 2008, 1:25 AM
>
> Hi,
>
> This was posted in the wikipage:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines#Access_Tagging
>
> Access Tagging
> Since the Philippines is a country where many(!) streets are not
> public, I suggest everyone while mapping should take a note on the
> access status (in order to not loose that information). Private
> Subdivisions (with gate houses and guys with shotguns in front of it)
> cannot be consideres "public accessible", can they? ;) I suggest
> tagging all of then access=private. I will try to implement this
> completely in my upcoming final revision of Makati --Sorabsuperstar
> 11:39, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
>
> Any comments?  I think this is a good idea, since it is important for
> routing, and it is particularly a "phenomenon" here.  I will add this
> tag around my area.
>
>
> cheers,
> maning
>
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