[OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over "derived" geographic data in the UK

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 15:14:50 GMT 2008


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Donald Allwright
<donald_allwright at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Actually, the current tagging doesn't seem to have enough granularity here.
> The highway=path, highway=footway, foot=yes, horse=designated etc. tags
> doesn't seem to include a way of actually saying if a path is a public right
> of way or a permissive path.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access

foot = yes => legal right of way
foot = permissive => permissive path

Unfortunately, Potlatch has been adding lots of * = yes for a while by
default, so it's hard to tell whether the contributor understands the
implications of the =yes tags and removes them if they don't apply. So
I'd have more confidence in the *=permissive tags more than *=yes.

Cheers,
Andy




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