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Many of our fire access tracks, are by the means of using reinforced grass. It is basically a compacted patch of ground that blends in with the rest of the grass field around it, usually it's only ever so slightly noticeable. Here's an example: https://historix108.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/feuerwehrzufahrt-nach-dc3a4mmung001.jpg The track between the red and white posts is the fire access road. As you can see, it blends in with the surrounding patch of grass perfectly, you wouldn't be able to tell that part of the grass patch is reinforced. Since I didn't know better, for now I've been tagging them as Someone on IRC also suggested I tag the bollard blocking access to these roads (not present in the image I've linked) with Just for clarity: this is not by the means of using grass pavers! This is just compacted ground, sometimes with gravel mixed in. When mixed with gravel this is sometimes called "Schotterrasen", finding a picture showing what I mean seems to be rather difficult. This surface is sometimes used in car parking spaces with a more eco-friendly surface, etc. When this reinforced grass is used for fire access, they're often topped with a thin layer of soft, black soil, to make them blend into the surrounding grass even better, and be less noticeable. These access routes have to be kept free, so parking on them or blocking their entrances by parking, usually results in the car being towed. The tag At a local OSM meetup, it was suggested to mark all access roads like this as So what tags should I use? Especially, whay |
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Hi polemon, have a look at surface=grass_paver, here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface its a reinforced grass surface wich might cover / like your needs. The Wiki shows a concrete one but there are others too nowadays. Tag the way with access=no and emergency=yes, the window cleaner might use the path as well have a look here https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.98642/5.08250 Hmm, yeah, I have taken a look at it, as I said in my question. But it's more like compacted soil, rather than pavers, as there are no structural elements in the ground, it's just gravel at most and feels like a hard-ish ground. In my book, pavers imply some sort of structural elements embedded in the soil, i.e. concrete, plastic, metal, etc. This is decidedly not the case, here. I'll add
(26 Nov '17, 15:30)
polemon
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Is the reinforced grass synthetic or real living grass that requires mowing, etc?
It's living grass, requiring mowing, and sometimes watering. I was hoping the picture made that clear, but oh well...