Well, the advantage of that approach, ***if it were supported by data 
consumers***, is that you could just classify your ways using some tag, and 
then have whatever consequences are of legislation apply to them. If the 
legislation changes, you just make the change to these default definitions, and 
they apply everywhere.

 

Whereas if you explicit tag the access (and whatever else) on each way, then:
a) you can’t tell if a certain access value on the way comes from general 
legislation, or from an explicit sign

b) if the legislation changes, you have to find and change all the ways that 
are affected, and at that time figure out a) because you can’t just blindly 
change all tags if there might be explicit signs in place.

 

 

From: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 4 February 2022 14:12
To: osm.talk...@thorsten.engler.id.au
Cc: OSM-Au <talk-au@openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Path versus Footway

 

Thanks, both!

 

Yep, get's very messy very quickly :-(

 

Thanks

 

Graeme

 

 

 

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