Greg Troxel schrieb: > First of all, you should NEVER remove anything from the database, > unless you have made certain by your own eye that the object in > question is an error and not existing in reality! Even than take care > not to remove anything marked as abandoned or alike, that marks this > object was once here and the info is kept for historical reasons. > > OK, point taken. (I know I am not 100% clear on the norms, which is why > I'm asking first.)
And that's much better than other people removing stuff without asking first ;-) > I am most used to the USGS 1:25K paper maps, and at that scale there is > a sense of clutter vs useful. I get the point that the database doesn't > have that notion, but that when rendering the tags determine what's > included. So I think my real issues are about tagging. Yes, it's often that people think they edit a map, but in reality they edit a database -> resulting in several very different maps. > Driveway has a connotation of private road that one should not be on > unless a guest of or going to the place at the other end. Service road > doesn't t me have that kind of notion. Thus the road to a tiny airport > that has a restaurant open to the public is an access road, but the road > into a manufacturing company that's posted No Trespassing is a driveway, > even if there are 10x the people using it daily and it has a yellow line > and streetlights. > > In the end I think I am wanting a way to tag residential driveways from > industrial driveways and commercial driveways, as the social/privacy > issues of using them are different. > > I'll go with highway=service, service=driveway, and perhaps for > commercial driveways where the public is welcome access=permissive and > for private ones access=private. The access tag makes perfect sense here, especially access=private when there's a "no trespassing" (or alike) sign there. Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
