On 28 June 2016 at 13:52, Michael Tsang <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree on the point that mode:learner_driver=* is better, but, however, isn't > it common sense that learners are not allowed on motorways? Can you give me > some regions where learners are, by default, allowed on motorways?
Yes, here in South Africa. Learner drivers are permitted on all public roads (including motorways), provided a licenced driver (for the class of vehicle being driven) is seated in the passenger seat (or directly behind if no passenger seats -- think motorcycles). In addition, fare-paying passengers may not be driven by a learner driver. On 28 June 2016 at 15:30, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > True, but in OSM it's currently at best awkward to have a complicated > set of defaults, because then that information has to be encoded into > all renderers and routers. We either need to have a single global > default or to have some machine-readable specification of default values > based on admin_level regions. Given that so many rules are different, > and that we don't have enough explicit tagging, I think the > machine-readable specification approach is the only workable one. I second this idea. Learner driver access would belong nicely in such a machine-readable default set: more often than not, it's a country-wide legal restriction, and it just seems more straightforward and elegant than adding access:learner_driver=* tags all over the place. That said, there's still a place for an explicit tag -- there are always exceptions to the rule. --K _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
