Re: [HOT] highway=service in the Highway Tag Africa

2017-12-06 Thread john whelan
These things seem to go in fashions. Currently it seems fashionable to map connections from a more major highway to a building as service but the distances are getting longer. Recently on one HOT project a highway was tagged service although it connected two other highways and had more than half

Re: [HOT] highway=service in the Highway Tag Africa

2017-12-06 Thread Philippe Verdy
There may be some cases with service roads within large private or protected properties (such as mining areas, or natural parks, or large ranches and agricultural complexes) probably in US, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Brasil (these huge areas may still have a few public roads crossing them, bu

Re: [HOT] highway=service in the Highway Tag Africa

2017-12-06 Thread Claire Halleux
Hi John, do you any have specific examples to share? In DRC, you can find pretty long service roads within mining concessions and leading to extraction sites. Interestingly, within logging and agricultural concessions, we usually tag similar "industrial roads" as highway=track + access=logging / a

[HOT] highway=service in the Highway Tag Africa

2017-12-06 Thread john whelan
I'm seeing some that are more than 10kms in length. My feeling is this is not a service highway in the conventional sense. Thoughts? and if it is considered that 10 km is too long can we drop a guideline into the wiki? Thanks John ___ HOT mailing list