Hi, > If there is some legal reason for it to be only accessible by bikes and > tractors, then you'll need to use access restrictions > (access=no;agriculture=yes;bicycle=yes;foot=yes) anyway, as there is nothing > that says normal cars are not allowed to use tracks of grade1
I don't know if this is a German specialty but the tracks being discussed mainly carry the following sign disallowing all motorized traffic: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Zeichen_260.svg And then the following exemption explicitly allowing agricultural/forestry use: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Zusatzzeichen_1026-38.svg Surely it is possible to tag these ways as access=no,agriculture=yes,forestry=yes,bicycle=yes,horse=yes,foot=yes etc.etc. but it seems wrong to me; the signage *forbids* certain accesses and allows all others. You are suggesting to turn around the logic with your tagging: Forbid all accesss and then explicitly allow some. Which obviously breaks if new access types are introduced later. What's more, in terms of kilometres we have vastly more of these in Germany than, say, pedestrian zones in cities. Nobody says that we should do away with highway=pedestrian even though you could perfectly well tag it as highway=residential,access=no,foot=yes - pedestrian areas are something that is known to everyone and so we just tag "here is a pedestrian area" instead of trying to describe what exactly a pedestrian area is. So it is only understandable that the community is looking for an easy way to tag these kinds of tracks, and until now many seem to have used highway=track,tracktype=grade1 for them. Maybe we should simply stop trying to find international lingo for something that seems to be a national type of road, and just recommend that people tag these things as "highway=land-und-forstwirtschaft", with implied access restrictions. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
