Steve Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sent: 13 May 2008 10:31 AM >To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Tagging bridleways > >On Tue, 13 May 2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > >> This is an example of confusing the physical space with the legal >> administrative description. > >Yes, but sadly the highway tag is defined in Map Features to encompass >that confusing mixture of physical and legal descriptions. :)
Yes it is, that's the one thing I wish I had thought of when I produced the original list back when the dinosaurs were still roaming the land ;-) > >(It is something we should probably try to move away from, but that's >another discussion). > >> Just because it's a bridleway does not necessarily mean car=no. > >The wiki indicates that OSM considers highway=bridleway to be a footpath >which horses are permitted on (I would think highway=footway, horse=yes >would be better and am in favour of getting rid of highway=bridleway >entirely. However, I also want to be consistent with what other people >are doing.) The wiki is not very cleverly worded then. Probably because its trying to combine the physical description with the legal access situation. > >> The landowner will almost certainly have access over the route. Since >> it's a bridleway however the public probably do not (unless its >> permissive). > >In this case, I imagine the highway belongs to the National Grid, since it >provides access to the Swansea North substation and some of their offices. >However, at the west end of the highway there is no "private", "no cars", >etc signs, just a "No through road" sign (which makes sense since there is >a gate at the other end... probably to prevent people rat-running). Also, >there are currently some roadworks on the highway, which are signed as you >would expect them to be if they were on a public road (the normal >red-triangle "roadworks" and blue-circle-with-white-arrow "keep right" >signs). Maintenance of signs is often slapdash. Often signage is only added if the way is being abused and the landowner wants to put a stop to it. A gate at each end and a padlock usually gets over most issues, but in this case they would need to leave access for bikes/horses/walkers if they did that. Cheers Andy > > - Steve > xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.nexusuk.org/ > > Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
