On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use fixmes a lot (I even wrote something to extract them from OSM for > survey - https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/Notes01 ). Where I've used e.g. > foot=unknown it usually means "I've been there, I don't know what the access > rights are, and there's really nothing that I can suggest surveying to find > out what they are".
'access=unknown' (and the corresponding tags for transportation modes) really seem to be a special case and have been called out on the Wiki. I have at least contemplated using it for similar reasons to Andy's. (I'd actually have to check to see if I've done it.) An example in my area is the snowmobile trails. The numbered corridor and secondary routes, I know, are open to all snowmobilists who have paid the tax. These trails, in summer, are often at least physically usable as hiking and ATV trails. Whether they're lawful depends on the landowner - the snowmobile easement (for which the landowner is paid) doesn't necessarily extend to hiking, mountain biking or ATV riding. I know that blazed trails that appear in a guidebook have at least permission, if not an easement, negotiated by the hiking clubs, and that posted ones are off limits. But there are a lot of landowners who don't trouble to post. Since, if they haven't posted, all they really can do if they catch me trespassing is ask me to leave, I feel comfortable hiking many of these trails, but I'm not about to mark them "foot=yes" or "foot=permissive" without stronger evidence, and unless I happen to encounter one of the owners, I really have little way to acquire the information. (Even stranger are the cases where there are public rights-of-way across posted lands that the landowners would prefer to have forgotten. They're 'foot=designated' when the clubs encourage hikers to ignore the posted warnings and use the old carriage roads openly and notoriously, since in many cases they are and remain public highways.) Few areas are as messy as mine, though. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
