[OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question

[Andy Robinson]

matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk [mailto:matthew-
>osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk] wrote:
>Sent: 20 July 2006 00:38
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question
>
>On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:21:07PM +0100, matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk
>wrote:
>> > For private/public best I think to stick to the "access" tagging
>>
>> OK, thanks. That isn't listed on the Map_Features or Labels pages of the
>wiki,
>> so I didn't know about it. What would you use, "access=private"?
>
>Sorry, ignore me... I can't read.
>
>I was expecting "access" to be a key, but it's foot=private,
>motorcar=private,
>etc.
>
>Is "access=private" still a good idea, as it covers everything (rather than
>having to specify "X=private" for all X in [foot, bicycle, horse, ...])?
>
>Then one could tag "access=private, foot=permissive" for a private
>drive that one may walk down, for example.


That works for me. I'm about to name the streets in a private housing estate
so an access=private pair looks better than anything else and as you say you
can always override something specific with another key. Suggest you add
that to the restrictions section of Map Features.


>
>Maybe I'm just being stupid here? ;-)
>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>Matthew


Cheers

Andy 

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk