>specifically, no U-turn is the common signage in many jurisdictions, and >that's a >turn restriction, not an access restriction. in a perfect world, that's how >we'd have
Mostly "we" are interested in the result, not the signs. It's the traffic code's limitation, that their best option is to forbid the turn, but the result is the same: generally nobody may use the u-turn connector, but emergency vehicles can. As for overloading, is there an imaginable case where a way tagged highway=* acts as an emergency=fire_hydrant, or any of the other values listed? Afair, the key emergency was first used as an access group, and the "emergency facilities" were only later grouped under a single key. >access=emergency "Emergency vehicles" are a "by use" category - as the Key:access page refers to them. It's better as a key. Here some effectively pedestrian ways into apartment building yards are signposted as a (literally) "rescue road" - that's emergency=designated. It doesn't by itself stop anyone else using it when they need to haul something heavy, but the signs make it clear to anybody that parking there will block the fire engine/ladder car from reaching some houses. (There's a no parking icon included in the traffic sign to make it understandable even for foreigners). -- Alv _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
