[OSM-talk] highway=byway

[Mike Harris]

Pieren may be missing the point that Richard is making - and I think 
Richard makes quite an important point (at least for England and Wales).

highway=track describes what is seen on the ground (and can usefully be 
refined with tracktype=* as per the wiki definitions).

designation=* makes a statement about legal status - which may or may 
not be capable of determination in the field (but there are other open 
sources for this information).

As a minor difference from Richard's designation=byway tagging I would 
prefer to see (again this is England and Wales specific) the use of either:

designation=BOAT - for "byway open to all traffic" (this is a legal term 
and does not necessarily mean what it appears to say as there are often 
restrictions on vehicular traffic specific to a  particular 'BOAT')

or

designation=restricted_byway for "restricted byways" (again this is a 
legal term)

the wiki does make this distinction but tends to use the term "byway" 
when it means "BOAT".

If we are to continue this thread it should probably be in talk-GB as it 
is probably not of relevance elsewhere - although of considerable 
importance to walkers and other off-road users in England and Wales.

Mike (mikh43)

On 19:59, Pieren wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Richard Mann 
> <richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes its a relic. Use highway=track+designation=byway instead
>
>     Richard
>
>
>
> I'm not sure it's a relic but it's a UK specific tag. I asked the 
> question some time ago:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-July/028091.html
> or here:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-July/028052.html
>
> Saying "use highway=track+designation=byway instead of highway=byway"
> sounds like the endless discussion about "highway=path+designation=*" 
> vs "highway=footway/cycleway/bridleway".
>
> Pieren

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