I am not sure why it was suddenly changed (today) from unsuitable to discouraged, but "Unsuitable for HGVs" is seen frequently in the UK. To my understanding there is a difference between the semantics of unsuitable and discouraged, the former being a simple statement of (official) opinion and the latter indicating that active measures have been taken to decrease its occurrence. In any case it might not be legally enforceable, but if you are shown to have ignored the official warning it may affect your position if it came to an incident (insurance claim).
Taginfo gives 318 occurrences of hgv=unsuitable. The principle of hgv=* (and other vehicle-class tags) using the same values as access=* would also suggest there is some merit in documenting "unsuitable" as a recognised value. If AndyS is reading this, maybe he could explain the change? Colin On 2014-01-08 14:45, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2014/1/8 Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> > >>> Since when is "unsuitable" an accepted value for the access keys? I always >>> thought that the access keys describe legal restrictions. >> >> It says "usage is discouraged (e.g. HGVs on narrow lanes) . Often >> marked by a traffic sign " >> >> So maybe, there is a traffic sign for "unsuitable" which is different >> from "no". An example would be appreciated. > > The value was now changed to "discouraged". I have found 2 occurances of this > in taginfo (checked access, foot, vehicle and motor_vehicle and found just 2 > bicycle=discouraged), hence my suggestion is to remove this from the access > page for now, as it wasn't discussed or officially proposed and isn't in use > either. Please make a proposal and see what others think about this, before > adding it to the documentation of established tags. > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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