On 5 May 2011 18:01, Peter Miller <peter.mil...@itoworld.com> wrote: > Should we add something about permissive and private paths to this view? If > we had that then the job to do locally would be to convert all the grey > paths and turn them into one of the colours. Currently anything that is > permissive will stay grey and the risk will be that other people will come > and review the same path time and time again wasting loads of time.
On paths/tracks, designation=* is only supposed to be for recording a definite legal status of the route. There's also suggested tagging for *signed* permissive routes, but I don't think we'd want to add anything for private paths (we have access=private, etc for things like that). There will be a lot of customary unsigned paths that are effectively permissive but wouldn't be signed as such (and hence we won't use the designation tag on them), and lots of paths in towns that aren't officially designated as public rights of way, but are nevertheless considered legal to use. Thus I don't think it's ever going to be an aim to get rid of all the grey lines. Though if we can reduce the number of "unknown" coloured designation values that might be good. Here are a few suggestions for some additional values that could be given colours, which would probably make the view even more useful: 1/ As well as the various highway=* ways that you're considering, I'd probably also include highway=track, as quite a few countryside routes (especially near me) are tracks rather than paths/footways. 2/ I'd give colours to the the two common permissive versions: permissive_footpath and permissive_bridleway. It would be good if their colours could be related to those for the public versions. Maybe a paler yellow and a paler blue could be used? 3/ I don't know if anyone else has been doing this, but I've been using designation=unclassified_highway for tracks that are officially public highways, but aren't really suitable for regular driving. (Hence it didn't really seem right to use highway=unclassified; but other suggestions for tagging these welcome.) These are typically marked on OS maps as "Other Routes with Public Access". You can check their status by asking the local highways authority. Just like a normal road, you can legally drive, ride, or walk on these. They're pretty much like a byway_open_to_all_traffic in that respect, though there will be some subtle legal differences, hence the need for different tagging. Based on the signs that some local authorities use for these, I'd suggest colouring them in black. I hope those suggestions are useful. Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
