Hello,
When calculating a route for a particular itinerary, I noticed the route was taking me through a private path, which shouldn’t happen. I suppose it is wrongly labelled as public.
I would like to submit a request to modify the path as private, in order to reflect its actual status.
How should I proceed ?
Thanks in advance.
Hey,
the openrouteservice uses OpenStreetMap data as the source to calculate the routing graph from - see the data section in our backend docs.
Could you provide a minimal example of a request using the path you mention as private?
We can then check the data in the OpenStreetMap and see if it is indeed not marked as public.
Best regards
Hello, thanks for your reply.
This route goes through the aforementioned path.
Hey,
great, thanks!
Indeed, this way is not marked as private.
However, using the street level imagery from google, I cannot find any signs stating that this is an access-restricted way - which makes me believe that this is indeed correct.
The OpenStreetMap tries to record access limitations whenever they legally apply.
Have a look at the clarification of private in the OSM Wiki.
This means indeed that a path not legally marked as private should also not be marked as access=private in the OSM.
Best regards
Hi.
Yes it is most definitely private as I happen to know the owner of the land the path is on.
However, under french law there is no distinction between what is private what is restricted. Anything that is on a private property is not accessible to the public unless explicitly stated by the landowner, not the other way around.
Although it certainly does help, there is no requirement to display clear signage to inform the public that a private area is restricted, and it is rather the public’s responsibility to insure they are not entering a private area without being permitted.
Therefore, Google Maps imagery showing the absence of signage is not a reliable way to determine the path’s status.
Rather, land ownership on french territory is publicly accessible on geoportail.gouv.fr (official government resource).
On the screenshot below, you can see the “path” being entirely within land section “0001” (not in a gap between two sections), meaning it is on private land.
And itinerary making on this tool correctly avoids the path !
In conclusion, I would like the path’s status in OpenStreetMap in order to reflect its actual legal status.
Thanks in advance.
Hey,
cool, thanks for the information on how this works in France :))
I now understand what is going on here and can therefore indeed confirm that this would be fixed by adding access=private to the corresponding way linked above.
As you are the knowledgeable person in this case, it would be great if you could change the OSM.
For changes like these, it should not be too hard - check the Beginner’s Guide in the OSM Wiki.
Once you have an account and are logged in on openstreetmap.org, you should have the “Edit”-Button in the top right, so if your view is on the path, clicking that will put you into the standard “iD” web OSM editor.
This should have a quick tour on how it works and will show you how to add the tag.
Note, that it will take a bit until the openrouteservice reflects your changes:
Best regards
Hi,
Thanks a lot!
I will look into it.
