Roy Interesting - I'd not looked at that one. I have myself already been confusing the wiki pages for 'designated' and 'designation'. The one that I tend to favour in terms of my own mapping (heavily oriented towards off-road and tights of way in England) is 'designation' http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Designation . This works quite well for me - when used as an expression of formal legal status, together with the "existing apparently most common practice in England" of using highway=footway/bridleway/byway/track/path/cycleway as the primary tag + foot/bicycle/horse/motorcar=yes/no as a description of the situation on the ground and/or signed + surface= or tracktype= for the actual condition as seen on the ground + access= used only in a limited way to indicate privacy or similar restrictions. I got there by an evolutionary process and it does seem to cover most of what I need. But I would be the first to admit that that doesn't make it right for anyone else or 'right' in any 'absolute' sense. What the use of designation= helped most with was separating out a description of legal/administrative status (mostly derived from publicly available and non-copyright sources developed by highway authorities) from the more usual description of what was 'on the ground' or could be deduced from signage. The latter is of general utility; the more legal stuff is very useful for those of us concerned with rights of way in England and Wales and is also slowly making OSM more useful to local authorities (and others who have their own problems with over-enthusiastic OS licensing). It also adds something to OSM that is NOT on OS maps - as they their recording of rights of way is quite often very out of date and quite often erroneous.
Happy mapping anyway! Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Roy Wallace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 August 2009 23:37 To: Mike Harris Cc: [email protected]; Nick Whitelegg Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Mike Harris<[email protected]> wrote: > Roy > > Could you give reference to your wiki quote? I can see for =designated at: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Ddesignated > > QUOTE > > "This tag indicates that a route has been specially designated > (typically by a government) for use by a particular mode (or modes) of transport." > > UNQUOTE > > There is apparently, perhaps unsurprisingly, some ambiguity in the wiki. Sure - my quotes were from: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access. This needs to be cleared up. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
