[OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

[Colin Smale]

On 2014-08-03 16:24, Craig Wallace wrote:

> On 2014-08-03 11:00, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> 
>> Residential roads in the UK often seem to have 'private road' signs, 
>> such as: - 'Private road' - 'Private road no parking' - 'Private road 
>> no parking no turning' - 'Residents only no unauthorised parking or 
>> turning' How do people tag these roads? For which of these would you 
>> use access=private? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Depends on just what sort of road it is, and how it is signed. ie are 
> they actually official signs or something more homemade.
> 
> Often a "Private road" sign is specifically referring to motor 
> vehicles, so it should just be tagged as motor_vehicle=private (or 
> motor_vehicle=no).

How about horses? How do you conclude that these signs are only for 
motor vehicles?

> In Scotland, you would generally have a right to walk or cycle there 
> etc, so should also be tagged as foot=yes, bicycle=yes.

There are exceptions to this, which include "Land on which there is a 
house, caravan, tent or other place affording a person privacy or 
shelter, and sufficient adjacent land to enable those living there to 
have reasonable measures of privacy and to ensure that their enjoyment 
of the house or place is not unreasonably disturbed." IANAL but I 
suspect this might be applicable to residential roads in private 
ownership.

> Not sure about the legality in England and Wales.

Land ownership in E&W is absolute isn't it? Trumped only by a public 
right-of-way.

> 
> Craig
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