Steve Bennett wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote:
>> i think anthony's proposal
>>
>> access=no
>> police=yes
>> <foo>=yes
>> ...
>>
>> is sensible.
>
> Sure. OTOH, why bother? Can you picture a use case where it matters
> whether police=yes is set? There are essentially two categories of
> roads:
> 1) Roads you can drive on
> 2) Roads you can't drive on, but someone else can.
>
> In the case of 2, is there a benefit to describing *who* can? All
> emergency services will drive wherever physically possible. But maybe
> I'm oversimplifying or overgeneralising.

emergency=* tags already exist for emergency services, and I can think
of at least one location in Oregon where a route is open only to
emergency services and no others (oddly enough, it's also a rare
instance where Americans drive left of the median).



_______________________________________________
Tagging mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Reply via email to