When you enter a National Park in a country in Africa you usually have to register with the gatekeeper (not the same as the ticket counter)
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:47 PM Friedrich Volkmann <b...@volki.at> wrote: > On 06.03.2015 12:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > > May be related to the United States Department of Agriculture's National > > Forest Service use permits. Typically a small wooden box with some > pencils > > and waterproof application cards inside, on which you are either strongly > > encouraged or legally obligated to spell out where you're going, who's > with > > you, when you're expected back, what trailhead you parked at and what > your > > vehicle's registration plate (or serial number in case of vehicles that > > don't require a plate). Usually no charge (and often there's a warning > > encouraging people not to donate cash in the box). Rangers typically > check > > these weekly or so, as well as before bad weather, empty out the filled > out > > cards and resupply them so they know who didn't come back, who needs > rescue, > > and where they need to hike to in order to warn people to get off the > mountain. > > You may add that to the proposal page if you like. > > I heard of one or two fia ferrata where climbers are required to add to the > log, but most registers in central europe are optional to use. > > We can tag which registers are optional or obligatory, but I don't know if > that information is of any practical use. > > It's similar to obligatory cycleways. I think that the information should > not be set on the cylceways or the register, respectively, because the use > is obligatory only for users of a corresponding feature. Concerning > registers, that corresponding feature is a highway=path, a route relation, > a > building, a cave, or similar. In your example, it's certainly a forest. > > So we could add some register=yes/no/obligatory (or compulsory?) tag to the > path/route/forest/etc. > > -- > Friedrich K. Volkmann http://www.volki.at/ > Adr.: Davidgasse 76-80/14/10, 1100 Wien, Austria > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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