Thanks for the feedback everyone. I scouted a few of the tracks this morning and taken photos of the gates and signage. All of them are locked gates with signage indicating fire/emergency access only but have an open gate/turnstile type passthrough for people on foot. All of them also have signs indicating no dogs/cats/trail bikes and most of them also have no horses.
The Parks Victoria website indicates that horse riding is allowed in the park on certain trails (22km of tracks) but I haven't been able to find a map. As I work my way through the park, I think the right thing to do would be to add access=private and then also add in horse=yes if it's one of the permitted tracks and also locked=yes to the gates. -Darryl > On 8 Aug 2025, at 22:25, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 17:32, Warin <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> On 8/8/25 13:45, Andrew Harvey wrote: >> >>> Though others in the community have other opinions, it's been discussed a >>> few times, for example at https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/164404229 >> This would allow horse riders even though the tagging has not mentioned >> them. The NSW NP have signs to say what is publicly allowed ... they may not >> indicate what is not allowed or what is 'privately' allowed. Locally to me I >> can tell walkers and cyclists are allowed on maintenance tracks, cyclists >> are not allowed on walking paths while walkers are, camping is not allowed. >> I've not seen any indication for horse riders in my locality. >> > It would leave it for data consumers to decide about horse access since no > specific value is specified. If we know what the horse access is, we should > specify it with horse=* > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 21:41, Ian Steer via Talk-au <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> If there is just a gate, but no signage saying it is restricted to emergency >> vehicles only, why wouldn't you just add "barrier=gate" at the appropriate >> places ? > > You can and should, but a barrier=gate alone is ambiguous, is it a locked > gate, or is it more like an animal barrier which you can open to pass > through. So it's best when adding a barrier=gate to a highway=track or > highway=path to specify locked=yes/no and also to specify each access > restriction eg. motor_vehicle=private (only authorised vehicles can pass > through the gate), foot=yes (walkers can pass the gate). > > It's common to also apply the same access tags to the ways "upstream" of the > gate, this makes it easier for maps to visually indicate access without > needing to run routing algorithms to try and make some guesses about it. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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