[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society
Richard Bullock
rb357 at cantab.net
Sat May 21 09:45:39 BST 2011
>Very basically this is all a problem becuase highway=track and
>highway=bridleway/byway/footway cannot both be tagged >together. They need
>to be understood and moved, or duplicated into 'routes' or another key to
>state access. Having >them together any longer will knock 10 years off my
>life, I'm sure of it! We need to either move bridleways/byways and
> >footways to routes or somewhere/anywhere else!, and just leave
>highway=track and highway=path. Or we need to move >physical things (like
>tracks) out of the highway key, even though highway is apparently
>'Physical', realistically it primarily >states access rights.
This has been done to death before. The wheel does not need to be
reinvented.
In the UK, most people mapping countryside areas use what is described in
the wiki under the "Classic UK Tagging style"
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines#Rights_of_ways_in_England_and_Wales
Note, in particular, that the access-type keys are
designation=public_footpath
designation=public_bridleway
designation=restricted_byway
designation=public_byway or designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic
You can see a real rendering of these rules here;
http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/index.php
RichardB
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