[Talk-scotland] non-motor vehicle highways, rendering and Outdoor Access 2002

[James Jarvis]

Hello,

On the off chance this issue has been solved and there is documentation that someone can point to…

Disclaimer - I do know we should not map for the renderer!

Background - Outdoor Access Scotland 2002 legislation provides equal rights of access to walkers, horse riders, cyclists and mountain bikers. Some paths are better suited to subsets of these. 

Issue - the access tags are a legal value indicating authorised access or not. I am not a mountain biker. As a pedestrian, MTB trails are not my first choice of route.

Default OpenStreetMap render appears to only show as a MTB route if the pedestrian access is set to “no”?

WayMarked Trails website will show MTB Routes irrespective of the access tags on the highway


Relation: Bermageddon(17353136) - the underlying path has access foot=yes

Way: Hush Hush(1147600166) - this has the access for foot=no (inherited, not set by me)

Am I correct to believe the OpenStreetMap and legally “correct” thing to do would be to set access foot=yes ?

And is it ok to leave bicycle=designated ??? I feel that is the prime use of the path.


Thoughts, discussions, dissent, references sought!

Thanks,

James