On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like a typical alley, although I don't see many garages > lined up along it. I count at least 7 garages/carports along that stretch, plus a number of driveways with no covered parking spot. > Is there some ground reason why you think it is not an > alley, such as pedestrian use? Or is there a tradition in your area of other > uses? General use around here is that alleys run along the back of the property, with driveways and garages accessible from them. They are also used for access to trash collection. In newer areas, alleys are no longer in use (too much wasted space that could be sold for revenue.) In these areas, front drives, and front facing attached garages are the norm. Most houses will have an address assigned to them. The road that is part of the address would be the street that the house is located upon. A back alley, even if it has a name would still be classified as an alley as far as I am concerned > I've got a similarly ambiguous situation in Pacific Palisades (part > of LA). Are these short ways driveways or alleys (because they serve > multiple units)? I chose "driveway," but, they have names (like many of the > alleys in Santa Monica right next door), so I wonder if it should be "alley" > instead. We have similar situations here, where a main street has multiple bays off of it, but usually the bays either simply use the same name as the main street, with the house numbers incrementing around the bay, or the stub has a name of it's own, with it's own unique house numbering. I would be inclined to tag the ways in your image as residential streets, I interpret driveways to be privately owned as the map features page describes. I would probably tag roadways in a small gated community or a condominium complex with driveway if they are privately owned and maintained. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
