Whilst I think of it there are some footpaths and roads in the UK which are open to the public on 364 days a year but closed one day a year to prevent them from becoming a public right of way.
Cheerio John On 3 August 2014 21:47, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the UK there are rights of way which date back in time to the days of > pack horses and long distance footpaths. I don't think you have the > equivalent in North America. So in the UK a right of way may still follow > a privately maintained road. > > It's probably better to leave the tagging of this to local mappers who > hopefully know the rules/laws and they are different in different countries. > > Cheerio John > > > On 3 August 2014 21:35, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >
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