I need some help editing OSM for Bluffdale UT. There is a military training area Camp Williams that falls partially in Bluffdale and the bordering city Lehi UT but it has nodes throughout. Watts Road and Beef Hollow are less obviously in the base but are only accessible from inside the base, Perimeter road across the street is also only accessible through a federal data center. I’ve tried editing a few things on OSM for smaller areas but i’m still not sure I’m doing it correctly and would love help with this so I can accurately see how much I have left to finish Bluffdale.
I am on the other side of the world so am reluctant to do any changes myself,
But after entering edit mode and having a look at the offending roads, it looks like the issue might be that they are recorded as being access: Permit.
This means you need a permit to use them but specifically if anyone asks they can get a Permit automatically. (For example paying to have access to a country park) See link here
If this is a military base I am assuming I couldn’t walk up ask for a permit and just enter. Am I right?
If so, then a more appropriate tag would be “Private”.
If you changed Allowed Access to Private then when the city is updated in Citystrides, it would no longer have nodes imported and visible. As long as my assumption above is correct!
To select the road just click on the line (between the dots) and it should highlight and information for that whole road should come up on the left hand side. It is then a mater of manually changing the road to “Private” in the Allowed Access" section of the side on the left. Save your changes and it should be ok.
A while back, I added access=permit as a tag to skip. So, the next city update should pull these streets.
I just sent in a sync, so let’s see if that removes these…
I didn’t want to suggest you updated your query as it may be the Access=Permit is valid to be included in some cases, unfortunately it is not a type I am familiar with and in this case I am pretty confident it is incorrectly tagged in open Street Map also.
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