Looks like a documented on the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fire_Path
On 3 February 2017 at 11:15, SK53 <[email protected]> wrote: > The tag that I have used for such things is fire_path=yes. > > There are 4 uses of the tag in Nottingham and 2 in Aberdeen. There are > several others not tagged (including the two recent ones you mention), for > instance this one <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/43328389> where Suez > Street joins North Gate outside Port Said Villas (I wonder when these > streets were built). > > The structures involved may be as illustrated by Paul. The older > Nottingham ones tend to have a zone of the wavy block paving which is > 10-15ft long and thus not a normal road in any sense. Other fire paths I've > seen involve two locked boom gates. > > Jerry > > On 2 February 2017 at 22:20, Paul Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Fire roads are an uncommon sight in the UK. They're sometimes signed as >> "fire lanes," but they're nothing to do with the designation in the US (and >> elsewhere) which is a parking restriction: https://wiki.open >> streetmap.org/wiki/Key:parking:lane and we're also not talking about the >> wide tracks in managed forests that act as a firebreak. >> >> I mean restricted highways like this one: http://www.openstreetmap.org/w >> ay/240007969 (whose source links to photo evidence). >> >> How do we map these? I assume service=emergency_access? >> >> Also, how is the embedded roughly-textured paving in that photo best >> represented? >> >> There are some similar ones in Nottingham, notably at Addington Road and >> Wimbourne Road there, though they're not mapped as such. >> >> Your advice and guidance gratefully received. >> >> Regards, >> *Paul* >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> >
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