Given the length of the thread about how to tag lands accessed by permit, and the fragmentation of the ideas therein, I've decided to advance a formal proposal for an 'access=permit' tag.
I've placed a draft at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/access%3Dpermit I'll wait a couple of weeks for any discussion on the talk page to die down, and once it seems to be stable, I'll send out a request for voting. In any case, the request will be sent no sooner than 15 August 2016. I hope that people will refrain from opposing the proposal on the ground that the requirement is already well served by 'access=private'. I hope that the proposal has made an adequate distinction between the two cases. Several other users in this thread have joined me in a desire to render the two access conditions differently on our own maps. Obviously, nothing that is to be rendered differently can be tagged alike. I've "jumped the gun" a bit and started using 'foot=permit', etc. on features that I've added as part of an effort to rationalize the geometry and tagging of protected areas in New York State. Nevertheless, I have scripts that can readily recover all the ways and relations that I've tagged with it, and a fairly small mechanical edit can revise the tagging to whatever modified scheme is accepted.
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