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motor_vehicl <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehicle>e=no Access permission for any motorized vehicle these routes do have access permission, but are signed as unsuitable/unfit which is more advisory Best Wishes Peter On 10 December 2012 14:30, Aidan McGinley <aidmcgin+openstreet...@gmail.com>wrote: > motor_vehicl <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehicle>e=no > should suffice I would have thought? > > On 10 December 2012 13:36, cotswolds mapper <osmcotswo...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> There are lots of roads where I map which have "Unfit for motors" signs >> (blue/white advisory) but are normal maintained roads in limited but >> regular use. Typically they are narrowish, with lots of bends and often >> steep. In general anything up to maybe the size of a skip lorry can get >> through (though some are too narrow), but what makes them unfit for motors >> is very long stretches without passing places,so if you meet something >> coming the other way, one of you has a very long, difficult reverse. >> >> They are currently tagged in OSM as minor roads, which of course means >> they are eligible for routing. As an example, most (all?) routing services >> (not just OSM-based, Google Maps has the same problem) will route Chalford >> Hill to Stroud along Dark Lane, but Dark Lane has an "Unfit for motors" >> sign. It's the shortest and most direct route from the A419 to most of >> Chalford Hill, but very few locals use it. >> >> I'd like to tag these roads so that routing services will avoid them, but >> can't find any direct way of doing this. I've seen elsewhere that one >> mapper has tagged similar roads as Service roads. This has two advantages: >> routing services will ignore them(?); and service roads render differently >> so anyone using the map visually will be less likely to use these roads. >> It's pushing the current definition of service road rather a lot, but if >> you consider a service road to be a road that should only be used to access >> locations connected to the service road, then it seems within the spirit of >> the definition. >> >> There's a specific issue with Chalford Hill at the moment. Road closures >> (due to collapsed retaining walls) mean that the popular routes to the >> valley (Old Neighbourhood and to a lesser extent Coppice Hill) are closed >> and likely to remain so for over a month. My local source (a parish >> councilor) says that most locals are using a long diversion and avoiding >> Dark Lane. (Traffic on Dark Lane has increased, and there was recently a >> fist fight when two cars met and neither driver would reverse. Locals want >> to make it temporarily one way, which would massively increase its >> usefulness, but there's no quick way of doing this.) >> >> My two questions: >> >> 1) Should OSM data discourage use of routes that locals - who are likely >> to be better than outsiders at coping with narrow lanes - avoid as too >> problematic; >> >> 2) Is tagging usable but 'Unfit for motors' roads as service roads an >> acceptable way of doing this or is there a better method (that is >> recognised by current renderers and routing engines). >> >> As my opinion on (1) is yes, I've tagged Dark Lane and a couple of even >> more difficult roads as service roads, at least for the duration of the >> road closures, but will happily revert the tag if there's a better way. >> >> Rob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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