You maybe ain't going to like this, but the usual distinction in the UK is that residentials are (typically) 6m+ wide and have pavements/sidewalks, whereas service is for urban roads which don't have pavements/sidewalks.
Richrd On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > Anthony <o...@inbox.org> writes: > >> But I've come across situations where the unnamed road is not a > >> roundabout, though. In one of these cases I used > >> highway=unclassified, because it was just a dirt road that was really > >> just a shared driveway (it was imported from TIGER because it used to > >> be a real road). > > > > here, the question is the road's legal status. If it's a private or > > public way going to houses, it would be highway=residential. If it's > > really a driveway legally now, highway=service service=driveway, or > > highway=track if it's really atrocious. MassGIS data has a lot of > > driveways showing up as ways that got mapped to residential, and I've > > been fixing them in my town. > > What's the legal distinction between a "private way going to houses" > and a "shared driveway"? The road in question is definitely private - > if the shared owners want to put up a gate and restrict access to the > way, they have every right to do so. So I'd say it's *both* a > "private way going to houses" *and* a "shared driveway". > > Another situation which I run into more often is the case of a private > road owned by a condominium association (or mobile home park), or by > an apartment complex. Should these be tagged as something other than > highway=residential? I've always reserved highway=service for > non-residential roads. I now see on the wiki that highway=service can > also be used with service=driveway, but what's the distinction between > a driveway and a private road owned by a condominium association or an > apartment complex? One distinction is whether or not the way is > shared, but then a shared driveway is shared as well. > > Cross-posting to talk-us, this might be a US-specific issue. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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