[OSM-talk] agriculture=yes/no and emergency=yes/no?

[Karl Newman]

On Dec 24, 2007 2:35 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Is there aconsensus to add these to possibilities to the
> > access-"transport mode restriction"-list?
>
> Does that make sense? Both these access restrictions generally come as
> "... only" (ways *only* allowed for emergency or farming vehicles),
> and I cannot imagine a situation where I would tag "emergency=no"...
>
> Bye
> Frederik

The emergency one makes sense to me. There are cases where, for
example, you could use a paved footpath for emergency vehicle access.
Normally, a footpath would imply motorcar=no (as far as I know), but
emergency=yes would mean it could be used in case of emergency. My
assumption of access=private implies emergency=yes despite the
restriction, but if that's not possible for whatever reason, you could
tag it with emergency=no. Garmin GPS devices support emergency vehicle
mode routing, so I think this could be useful.

Karl