[OSM-talk] Highway=footway or highway=track for peds only ongravel

[John F. Eldredge]

You also have the case where vehicular access is limited to official vehicles, such as emergency vehicles and vehicles used to transport materials for maintaining the pathway, but the general public is only allowed to use the path on foot.  I know of some hiking trails where this is the case, as well as some (in the same nature preserve) that are so narrow and steep that they are passable only on foot.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mrtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 15:42:28 
To: Claudius<claudius.h at gmx.de>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Highway=footway or highway=track for peds only on
	gravel

2010/5/31 Claudius <claudius.h at gmx.de>:
> highway=track is for ways that are wide enough to be *potentially* used
> by a 4 wheel vehicle.


+1


> If it's that wide and has tracks than you should
> tag it liek that. If legally only pedestrians are allowed add "vehicle=no".



actually the case which is IMHO more difficult to decide is when the
access is physically restricted by heavy obstacles (massive rock
pieces, etc.). I tend not to use track in these cases nonetheless the
width would fit, but often you cannot check all possible ways to go to
this specific point (e.g. it could be that the road is blocked there
by a heavy stone block but you could arrive from the other side).

cheers,
Martin

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