I support Richard's logic 100% but am unsure whether I want to put the effort in to go back and add the tags to all those ways I have done! (;>) - at least until there had been enough discussion that this was well established as a new standard. Is the proposal for a new key "designation" (afaik there isn't such a key yet in (common) use??) with the various values - footpath, bridleway, restricted_byway, BOAT and - perhaps - ORPA, adopted, unadopted?
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 24 February 2009 20:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging] Gustav Foseid wrote: > They do, however, make pretty much sense in many other parts of the > world. I see no good reason why the (very UK specific) right of way > tags should not be something like uk_row:foot=, uk_row:briddleway= and > so on. A UK Right of Way legal status, unsurprisingly, is much more nuanced than simply "horse yes, bicycle yes, foot yes, car no". So, in itself, it's a valuable piece of information to store in the database. Rather than just approximating this with 5,000 OSM tags, let's be precise. Use a general tag such as "highway=track" so the path is routable/renderable and so on, but augment with "designation=uk:restricted_byway", so those applications which want to parse the detailed information can do so. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/amenity%3Ddoctor-or-amenity%3Ddoctors----tagging--tp22 117960p22189786.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
