If 'official' means exclusive access then it would rarely be used in England and Wales except for public footpaths - as pedestrians have legal access on all other rights of way (other than motorways) in addition to one or more other classes of user. This is why I find =designated very helpful as, being a value, it is non-exclusive. Personally, I have never used 'official' but have nothing against it if someone else finds it useful! Perhaps the wiki at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Ddesignated does need a minor tweak or two to see whether the official/designated overlap can be minimised? Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Roy Wallace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 August 2009 00:12 To: Mike Harris Cc: Jukka Rahkonen; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Mike Harris<[email protected]> wrote: > > Tend to agree in part - I think the 'official' bit is actually redundant? Would this improve the page? I'm not sure you'd be successful in removing 'official' altogether, but I think it could do with some clarification, as Martin points out. The access=designated wiki page says 'official' means "exclusive access", but the access=official page says "In most cases, [ it's exclusive ]". This needs to be fixed. There is a lot of overlap between designated and official, but I don't think 'official' is redundant, given their different definitions on the wiki. Of course, hopefully everyone actually uses them according to their wiki definitions... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
