>> Sorry but I do have to say this. In an area (UK outside of Scotland) >> where sadly, you're not free to roam where you like, access rights are >> *absolutely vital detail* for walkers and other users of the countryside >> and indicating them explicitly where known, either via designation, or >> foot/horse/bicycle = (designated/yes - the two I consider equivalent), >> permissive or private is essential. They should only be left out where >> they are not known.
>Yes, but no. Yes I agree that it's information we should gather, and >anyone more into this thing than a casual mapper probably should. >However in order to broaden OSM's appeal we can't demand it at the entry >level. Particularly if there are no handy buttons for it in Potlatch. Just to make it clear, I'm not proposing rejecting edits containing designation tags, or anything like that - just encouraging people to use them where known. >Most of the general public don't know or care, or just bimble along >anything with tarmac whether it's marked "footpath" or not. I can see that in towns, though I have to admit being a little surprised that out in the country, people aren't aware of path designations. >Experts can set additional access tags if they want and need to. IMO the >full sets for a particular designation are a pain to remember, large, >demonstrably quite difficult to understand in combination, and easy to >get wrong. Only two are really essential, though, I think, highway plus designation. foot|bicycle|horse=permissive are nice too, to indicate permissive paths, but not as essential as designation. Nick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
