Isn't it normally to need a license and registration for any type of motor vehicle?
I've read that in Japan you even have to show proof of access to a parking spacing before buying or registering a car in the city. Are these golf cart permits only given out sparingly via a lottery system, rather than to anyone who requests one and pays the appropriate fee? On 4/11/19, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 13:41, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > >> On 10/04/2019 14:28, Paul Allen wrote: >> > You may want to take Peachtree City, Georgia into account in your >> > proposal. It has an alternative transportation network of golf cart >> > paths. People must obtain and display permits on their carts to use >> > the paths. Accordingly, somebody has tagged several footpaths there >> > with golf_cart=permissive. >> I thought "*=permissive" meant: "You have no legal right use that on >> this road/path/etc, someone else 'owns'/controls it. However they allow >> anyone to use it by default, but they reserve the right to kick you >> out/off for any reason." And that doesn't sound like what you describe. >> > > You are absolutely correct. However, access=permit was only agreed upon in > the last > couple of months whereas those tags were added prior to that approval and > access=permissive was the best fit back then. I should have made it > clearer I was > describing what had been tagged and not endorsing what had been done. > Actually, > I only remembered access=permit after I'd sent that mail. > > It seems like this permit system gives someone a (temporary) _right_ to >> drive their golf cart along those paths. I think `golf_cart=permit` is >> more accurate here. >> > > I'd agree with you there. Certainly if I were mapping it now I'd use > access=permit. I'd > hesitate to change the existing tags without first contacting the original > mapper. Which I shall > leave to somebody else who feels like taking on that particular exercise. > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
