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

[Robert Weetman]

This is an excellent question James. My related question would be about
when we call something a cycleway (e.g.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4714922#map=15/55.9673/-3.2306 ) rather
than a footway (on which you can cycle). I've become somewhat disconnected
from the Edinburgh OSM community over the last few years, but I'm sure
someone else will have been talking about / puzzling over this. Is there
any kind of set of halfway-agreed conventions on these things? Is it
written down? Because it should be...
Robert

On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 10:04, James Jarvis <jjarvis970 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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