On 5 May 2011 17:03, Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk> wrote: > Not sure how widespread this is but I tag byways as > designation=public_byway. Might be good to show these too.
Quite widespread, judging by taginfo [1]. For the byway-related designation=* values, we have: 645 restricted_byway 248 byway_open_to_all_traffic 230 public_byway 65 byway 31 unknown_byway However, since there are legally only four classes of public right of way, designation=public_byway is presumably either being used to mean a Byway Open to All Traffic (in which case it would be better agree on and adopt a standard tagging) or it's being used for both types of byway (in which case it would be better to avoid using it, and be more specific). I would guess it's probably the former, ie designation=public_byway is a synonym for by designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic. If this is the case, it would be good to settle on one option as the preferred tagging, and convert any instances of the other. Personally, I'd prefer to use "byway_open_to_all_traffic", partly as it's based on the full legal name (though admittedly the signs typically only say "Byway"), but more importantly because there's then no room for any ambiguity or confusion with Restricted Byways. (In common language, you might reasonably think that a "Restricted Byway" was a type of "Public Byway".) Robert. [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/designation#values -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb