[OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging]
Someoneelse
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Mon Feb 23 19:55:25 GMT 2009
Either my memory is playing up (entirely possible) or the Wiki, although
still confusing*, is actually clearer than it used to be on this. The
tag page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:foot
refers to the
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access
page that you mentioned.
which makes it clear that it's about the legal right of access rather
than the physical possibility of doing so.
Unfortunately, UK_public_rights_of_way doesn't refer to either of these
or make it clear what the "yes" in "foot=yes; highway=footway" actually
means (although "UK_Countryside_mapping" does explain "yes").
A significant minority of the footpaths that I add are
actually "foot=unknown" since although it's a path that "everyone uses"
there's actually nothing on the ground that says that it is a public
footpath - just a hole in a hedge and a muddy track across a field.
Things are further complicated by landowners diverting paths (sometimes
legally, sometimes not) and new trails such as former railway lines for
which "who is currently invited to use the trail" is clear, but the
permanent legal status isn't.
*thinking about it, read without the UK- (actually England and Wales-)
specific pages, and approached from the perspective of adding what's on
the ground first, and then adding what is known about access rights, it
actually makes much more sense.
Finally - a question. How widespread is the use of the yellow / blue /
red scheme described on UK_public_rights_of_way? I've seen it southwest
of London and maybe parts of Oxfordshire, but don't recall it elsewhere.
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