[OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads

[John F. Eldredge]

In the USA, it depends upon whether the property owner has given permission for public use.  If a private road through an apartment complex is signed as "residents and guests only", for example, an outsider driving through can be charged with trespassing.


On August 3, 2014 6:50:55 AM CDT, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> It depends whether a right of way exists. Things are rather
> complicated in the UK. Private means private, so no entry by default.
> If you are visiting an address on a private road, you have presumably
> been invited, explicitly or implicitly. An unofficial sign "residents
> only" might not have any force in law. A road in private ownership,
> with a public right of way, can be used though if it is a "byway open
> to all traffic". Landowners often object to rights of way across their
> land and might try to discourage their use with misleading signs.
> 
> 
> On 3 August 2014 12:43:50 CEST, Matthijs Melissen
> <info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
> >On 3 August 2014 11:18, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> 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?
> >>>
> >> I would tag them all with access=destination, unless there are
> >additional
> >> signs that forbid entering.
> >> A "private road" is privately owned and maintained, but you
> normally
> >may use
> >> it to reach the properties facing it as visitor or for delivery
> >purposes.
> >
> >Most private roads are cul-de-sacs, but in the hypothetical situation
> >where a private road connects two non-private roads, would there be a
> >legal reason you couldn't use the private road as shortcut?
> >
> >-- Matthijs
> >
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