[OSM-talk] Issue from IRC last night.... UK rights of way and access keys

[Richard Fairhurst]

Nick W wrote:

> I have put up a wiki page (actually, a modified and retitled version of
> "Countryside surveying") at
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/UK_public_rights_of_way
>
> BOATs and the even stranger RUPP are discussed in detail.

RUPPs have changed/been abolished very recently (2nd May). They've been 
reclassified as "restricted byways" where motor traffic is, by and 
large, forbidden. A quick Google will give you lots of pages of 4x4 
drivers foaming at the mouth about this.

Richard