[OSM-talk] Footways

[Ben Robbins]

Can't there be some additonal tag to go on a path, that says 
accsessability=Yes/No...?  in fact that could be used for anything.  The 
default being yes.

Ben





From: Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com>
To: "Ben Robbins" <ben_robbins_ at hotmail.com>
CC: talk at openstreetmap.org, nick at hogweed.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Footways
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:38:37 +0100

On 9/17/06, Ben Robbins <ben_robbins_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Thanks Nick, that was a helpful responce.  My question has sort of
>expanded
>today though...
>
>What should I tag a bridleway as, which doesnt allow a right of way by
>law,
>but just by choice of the land owner.  (Again - Forest commision being my
>example)?  Would it be Highway=Bridleway; Bridleway=permissive? (I'm
>trying
>to understand the logic here)
>
>I found another path today, wich was unable to be acsessed, or sign
>posted.
>At one point there was a double barb wire fence, and a hawthorn hedge that
>was too dence to get threw.  (There is definatly definatly a path there
>though, incase your just asuming I went the wrong way)


If the path isn't passable and clearly isn't used then it is not very
helpful to mark it on a map, IMHO.  Even if it is a public right of way and
marked on OS maps, that doesn't help the weary traveller.  Maps are supposed
to be useful.

I suppose the right solution is to distinguish between the physical
existence of a path and the legal/administrative existence of a path.
Either one can exist independently of the other, although in most cases they
happily coincide.

Etienne




I have come up with 2 options of how to legally? allow myself to add these
>to OSM.
>
>1) If i write to the council and state that the paths are unexcesable,
>with
>a self made illustration of where the paths I'm refering to are, and then
>I
>get a responce saying that they are following it up.  Then I will no that
>paths are there.
>
>2)  If i print off a set of Footpath/Bridleway etc signs onto there white
>circular plates, and take them with me...then if a sign isnt there, i just
>stick one there, and take a photo, so as to be able to justify my disision
>to add it to OSM later, if ordinant survey diside Ive just copied
>them.  If
>they say its a diliberate mistake on the map, then I point out the
>apparent
>irony, by sending them the photo, proving to them, that there mistake was
>a
>mistake....  I would remove the false signs after taking a photo though,
>incase I incorrectly marked the path...I'll leave that to the path wardens
>or council after emailing them.
>
>
>
>Ben
>
>
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