How to tag building access for a specific group only

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Hi, access to this shelter is restricted for everybody except canoeists only (if you know Swedish see this image). It is part of a canoeing center, but it doesn’t limit access to customers and I would not read this as access=private. How would you tag this?

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I would say either =private or =permit?

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access=customers is a common option, otherwise access=permit is regarded as more allowed than access=private.

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According to the sign you neither need to be a customer nor do you need a permit for a 1-night stay. All you need is a canoe. Is there a way to do this along the line of access=yes + access:conditional=canoeist ?

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access=permit doesn’t mean you need to have a permit. I’d give the wiki page for the access tag a read to see which of permit vs private matches.

It does sound more like access=permit from what you’ve described.

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I had read the wiki beforehand and in my view that doesn’t fit. The situation seems to match the description of an exemption: " an exemption allows certain users to use an element that is forbidden for that mode of traffic" but “exemption” doesn’t seem to be a tag.

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You can also check out https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org to see what other common tags there are for access=.

I’d still say out of the main options, permit fits the most, there might be options to detail it out more that TagInfo could help you find.

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Thanks for the reminder for taginfo! I"ll use
access=permit
access:permit=canoeists

Thanks!

in analogy to employees, students, etc.