The first thing that comes to mind is a barrier=toll_booth: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dtoll_booth
Perhaps also with a fee=no to indicate that you don't have to pay any money. Peter On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:10 AM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > The case of non-hard-surface roads brought this to mind. There are a few > roads across the Adirondack Park that are open to the public (in summer) > and have endpoints that look like > > http://i65.tinypic.com/2enq9ew.jpg > > In this case, I already recognize - tag the two cabins (they are a ranger > station, not often staffed), the gate, the outhouse, the well, perhaps the > signage. But what to do about the kiosk/register? > > The requirement is that vehicles (or bicycles, pedestrians, horses, etc.) > must stop, and the party leader fills out an entry in the book that's kept > in one of the boxes on the kiosk. (There happen to be two books at that > location; one for vehicles that are merely traversing the road and another > for hikers, skiers, and riders who are venturing off-road into the > backcountry) The understood procedure is that it's all right to pass as > long as the gate is unlocked, and the expectation is that drivers will > leave the gate as they found it - close it if they opened it. > > Is there an OSM tag for "this is where you stop and execute formalities" > that I've missed? I know that calling it out as an access restriction on > the road has been controversial, and I don't tag that because any scheme > gets someone up in arms. For this reason, tagging that registration is a > requirement to drive on the road is Out Of Scope. I'm simply trying to tag > the on-the-ground "this is where you stop and register." > > By the way, I'd tag the road in the picture as at least > highway=unclassified and possibly even tertiary. In the seasons when it's > open (usually late April to early November, depending on snow conditions) > it's the main route between the villages of Indian Lake and Inlet, and when > it's closed the trip is many miles longer. The registration requirement is > largely to make sure that drivers have all the warnings in front of their > faces - they're going to be spending the next hour driving on an unpaved > road across some very forbidding country, with no services available and no > mobile phone coverage nor radio call boxes. (It's also there because Search > and Rescue isn't going to give quite the same treatment if someone goes > missing without having signed in.) > > There are simpler but similar setups on some footways - where the hiker > must not only register, but take the carbon copy along as proof of > registration. (The plan is that sometimes the number of forms will be > limited as a primitive means of 'first come, first served' capacity > control. I don't think it's ever actually got that far.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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