In the USA, it depends upon whether the property owner has given permission for public use. If a private road through an apartment complex is signed as "residents and guests only", for example, an outsider driving through can be charged with trespassing.
On August 3, 2014 6:50:55 AM CDT, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > It depends whether a right of way exists. Things are rather > complicated in the UK. Private means private, so no entry by default. > If you are visiting an address on a private road, you have presumably > been invited, explicitly or implicitly. An unofficial sign "residents > only" might not have any force in law. A road in private ownership, > with a public right of way, can be used though if it is a "byway open > to all traffic". Landowners often object to rights of way across their > land and might try to discourage their use with misleading signs. > > > On 3 August 2014 12:43:50 CEST, Matthijs Melissen > <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote: > >On 3 August 2014 11:18, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Residential roads in the UK often seem to have 'private road' > signs, > >such > >>> as: > >>> > >>> - 'Private road' > >>> - 'Private road no parking' > >>> - 'Private road no parking no turning' > >>> - 'Residents only no unauthorised parking or turning' > >>> > >>> How do people tag these roads? For which of these would you use > >>> access=private? > >>> > >> I would tag them all with access=destination, unless there are > >additional > >> signs that forbid entering. > >> A "private road" is privately owned and maintained, but you > normally > >may use > >> it to reach the properties facing it as visitor or for delivery > >purposes. > > > >Most private roads are cul-de-sacs, but in the hypothetical situation > >where a private road connects two non-private roads, would there be a > >legal reason you couldn't use the private road as shortcut? > > > >-- Matthijs > > > >_______________________________________________ > >talk mailing list > >talk@openstreetmap.org > >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
