On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:53 PM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 12:41 Jarek Piórkowski <ja...@piorkowski.ca> wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 13:32, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:25 Fernando Trebien <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> I never thought that emergency access would determine highway >> >> classification. It seems like a secondary use of the way, not its main >> >> use/purpose. >> > >> > motor_vehicle=no would exclude most emergency vehicles. >> >> I thought we were saying access tags like motor_vehicle are legal >> access, not physical access. I do not expect emergency vehicles to be >> excluded by legal access tags. > > access=no by itself is absolute. I would expect most roads in the DMZ > between the Koreas (that aren't too overgrown and weathered away from a half > century of being disused) would be an extreme example. You're not getting > even fire or paramedic vehicles down it, period, it's not happening.
Actually access=* gets overridden by any other more specific access tag in the access hierarchy [1]. So access=no+foot=permissive means no access to everyone except pedestrians, which are explicitly authorized. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#Land-based_transportation -- Fernando Trebien _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
