Hi, On 12.09.19 08:16, Andrew Harvey wrote: > Within the Illawarra Escarpment State Conservation Area, NPWS says the > only two things prohibited are Pets and > Smoking, > https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/illawarra-escarpment-state-conservation-area/visitor-info#Prohibited. > > Normally for most National Parks and SCA's you're allowed to walk > anywhere unless otherwise prohibited.
The link you posted contains the following wording: "Come for a serious bushwalk or a casual jog, visit a lookout in the winter for whale watching off the coast, or break out the binoculars for birdwatching. There are cycling opportunities on fire trails and plenty of chances to cool off in summer by retreating to a rainforest track." Would "serious bushwalk" be a term that NPWS could be using for walking only along pre-established trails, or is this a clear invitation to walk wherever you want? > In my opinion paths signposted or otherwise for walking should be > foot=designated to indicate there is signage saying this path is > explicitly for walking. That makes sense. > Any path they want people not to use > they'd need to put sinage and we'd tag as access=no That too, though if they were to say "mountainbiking on designated paths only", we might consider tagging all non-designated paths with cycling=no - that's essentially the old question of whether defaults should be tagged. > and any other path > with no sigage would be somewhere in the grey area between access=no and > access=designated (which I always saw access=yes as that middle ground tag). In my opinion a foot=yes, while not necessarily indicating that there is a sign, is more than a grey-area assumption. It is an assurance given by the mapper to others that "it is ok and legal to walk here", based perhaps not on signage but on local rules and customs. I would not use foot=yes for "well there is a path here and I've walked along it but I'm not sure what would have happened had I met a ranger". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
