[mkgmap-dev] access=permissive question

Tue Aug 7 14:54:51 BST 2012

Even cars are routed on this footway:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/47247295

A default rule in the mkgmap style says

highway=footway|highway=path|highway=steps {add access = no; add foot = yes}

I think there is a bug in the internal mkgmap code, because the internal code sets this footway to access=yes, so allowing all traffic on this footway. Is this a mappers fault on OSM or a bug in the mkgmap code (committed in r2067)?

In my opinion access=yes is a tag that makes no sense at all so it should be deleted anyway, and therefore access=permissive or official should be deleted instead set to yes in the internal codes.