change "public" into "yes" in access presets and in validator

[mkoniecz]

There is a "public" value in access presets. AFAIK it is synonymous to "yes" in the access context, is way less used (13:388) and is undocumented on wiki. It is not appearing in iD editor.

I suggest removal of "public" from all access presets and adding rule in validator to change <access_key>=public to <access_key>=yes (via fix button).

See

​https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-May/017501.html
​https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-May/017509.html
​https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-May/017510.html

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[skyper]

I do not like access=yes. Better use explicit keys, but well, some like to explicitly tag that access is allowed.

Thought by default access=yes applies to all ways.
I do not know what people intended to describe when they did use designated,official or public, but the ​wiki page really invites to tag this way.

[mkoniecz]

I am not a great fan of access=yes but it is certainly better than access=public that appears only in JOSM presets.

[goldfndr]

FYI, it is documented on the wiki at ​amenity=toilets (and also at amenity=grit_bin). Changing defaultpresets.xml line 4058 to remove public, will get it off of the default list. (Try yourself by saving/extracting it then change line 4058 then change Internal Preset to point to the local file instead of "resource://data/defaultpresets.xml".)

[mkoniecz]

Still, it clearly should be reported by validator and not suggested for things that are not toilets or grit_bin.

I encountered it on highways, playgrounds etc.

[skyper]

Replying to mkoniecz:

Replying to goldfndr:

Replying to skyper:

I do not like access=yes. Better use explicit keys, but well, some like to explicitly tag that access is allowed.

Thought by default access=yes applies to all ways.
I do not know what people intended to describe when they did use designated,official or public, but the ​wiki page really invites to tag this way.

FYI, it is documented on the wiki at ​amenity=toilets (and also at amenity=grit_bin).

Thanks, that explains the usage of public as counter-part to private. If you want to state that an amenity/leisure is for the public it might be useful.

Still, it clearly should be reported by validator and not suggested for things that are not toilets or grit_bin.

I encountered it on highways, playgrounds etc.

I prefer public over yes for playgrounds but both values are useless on highways. How about excluding leisure and amenity but check all the rest.

[mkoniecz]

I prefer public over yes for playgrounds

Why it is better? IMHO it makes parsing data more complicated for no gain (I processed OSM data on occasion and discovering yet another pointless variation of tagging is IMHO one of the most irritating things).

[mkoniecz]

this bug was present also in iD - see ​https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2280

[mkoniecz]

This bug is still present and it continues to promote undocumented duplicate of existing tag.

[Klumbumbus]

The toilet wiki page was changed one year ago (public->yes) and I just changed the grit bin page.
In my opinion it is better to use yes instead of public everywhere. So I'm gonna change the preset now. Since there is no real agreement for the deprecation and the usage numbers for public are higher than for yes (for toilets and grit bins) I will not add a validator warning at this point.

[Klumbumbus]

In 10094/josm:

fix #10007 - change access=public to access=yes in presets for toilets, shower and sanitary dump station.

[Don-vip]

Milestone renamed