On 26 May 2010 13:33, Ian Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > The interesting thing is that the one thing that it is not is > access=permissive - the owners have lost their right to a private way > because over many years they have not sought to enforce or restrict that > right of way, yet they have not given permission. However, it is in > limbo in that no definitive way is defined for the road. In reality it > is simply an unadopted road going back say 100 years. > > Having read around a bit more, I believe the legal position is that it > can still be a public highway even though it is unadopted, so I would > say that the access=private flag should be sparingly used only for those > private roads and paths that display notices to that effect. > > So the challenge for the mapper is when is a private road an unadopted > public highway and when is it a truly private access? > > So you mean these places that like to display "private" signs, even though legally they probably aren't? I just map them as access=private based on the sign and if someone challenges it so they pull down the sign then they can also update OSM. If it is just a road that has a bad surface (not maintained/adopted by the local authorities) with no "private" sign then I don't use the access tag, I maybe tag it highway=service/track, I suppose I could use the smooth=* tag if I ever wanted to.
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