The whole reason permit
was invented is because of US national parks: you don’t have a legal right to access them, so yes
would be inappropriate, but there’s a permit system and a permit is often quite easy to get, so mappers were looking for a less restrictive alternative to private
.
- Is it correct to use
bicycle=permit
in your case?
There are different points of views on this. Some mappers use =permit
for every path that requires a permit. If you take that view, then it is correct. Other mappers reserve =permit
for paths where a permit is relatively easy to get, like in the case of the US national parks that the tag was invented for. They insist that if a permit is hard to get or limited to specific groups of users (e.g. residents only) then =private
should be used.
- Will it result in a warning message?
Unlikely. A lot of routers treat permit
like yes
. Last time I checked, only GraphHopper’s default profile treated it differently, but it refused to route along =permit
entirely.
If a permit is hard to get then you might want to use “private” instead. Many routers, including Komoot, will not route along a private
path at all. OSMAnd will show a warning if the destination is private
.