You sometimes get a simple direction sign at a road junction saying "Byway". It just means it doesn't go anywhere very much, but otherwise it's a normal unclassified (non-urban) road.
Richard On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > I'm pretty happy to add that any way signposted as either a "Byway" > "Public Byway" or "Byway Open to All Traffic" should be tagged as > designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic as long as it also has a red arrow. > Unlike footpaths there is little chance of a landowner putting up a sign > for a "byway" unless it is a public right of way. There can also be no > confusion caused by long distance routes (as with footpaths). > > Cheers, > Rob > > >On 12/05/12 13:02, Philip Barnes wrote: > > > >>* They do vary between highway authorities, but well worth getting some*>>* > >>photos of samples. The one thing waymarks have in common, and I can > >>only*>>* claim knowledge of England and Wales here is that a public > >>footpath has*>>* yellow arrows, public bridleways have blue arrows and the > >>hardest to*>>* find of all are red arrows, used on B.O.T.A.Ts.*> > >Not a waymarker, but the signposts are fairly rare too; "Public Byway" > >or just "Byway" is the normal wording: > > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:UK_Public_Byway_signpost.jpg > > http://osm.org/go/eutqlptvf--?m > > > >and I don't think we could expect the waymarkers to say any more. > > > > > >Predictably enough, the thin little road the one above points at is > >blocked off at one end for larger vehicles: > > > > https://imgur.com/Tx9hI > > > >To complicate matters further, that's a No Motor Vehicles sign under the > >graffiti which presumably reflects a TRO filed somewhere in the bowels > >of the local town hall. It's only applicable to the plugged end. A sign > >on the far end warns of there being no sane turning places. > > > >So it's not open to all traffic at all, and the sign doesn't call it > >"open to all traffic", but it should be tagged > >designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic anyway :D > > > >-- > >Andrew Chadwick > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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