[OSM-talk] Map Feature default |was: Re: Annotation presets]

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Tuesday 12 Sep 2006 23:35, Robert Scott wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 22:46, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > I do, to distinguish between public footpaths (official rights of way)
> > and permissive footpaths (access at discretion of landowner)
> >
> > My own convention is that highway=footway alone implies foot=permissive.
> > foot=yes is needed to indicate a public right of way.
>
> Surely this is what access= is for.
>
> Then it would be highway=footway access=yes(/public).
>
>
> robert.

My understanding is that the key isn't called 'access',  but you have
individual 'foot', 'horse', 'bicycle' and 'motorcar' keys to represent
different types of access, all grouped under the 'access' category. 
e.g you could have foot=yes, horse=permissive if it was a public footpath 
which the landowner had given discretionary access to (there are several real 
examples of this)

But I think the second edition of Map Features is going to sort out these
sorts of ambiguities, along with dealing with way widths.

Nick