Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Thanks fellas, both fair comments! Graeme On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 13:15, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 08:17, Graeme Fitzpatrick > wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 20:48, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >>> (admin_level 4/6/8, normally). >>> >> >> Would it work to add the

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 08:17, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 20:48, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> (admin_level 4/6/8, normally). >> > > Would it work to add the admin_level= to the road to say which level of > Government owns it? > > Then I would think that a search should be

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread stevea
As a quick addition to my previous post, the "park_level" proto-proposal (circa 2009) had its syntax potentially refined to become park:public_level=*, which is the section immediately below the referenced wiki entry. All ideas and discussion so far, everyone. But if we've spun similar wheels

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread stevea
On Apr 13, 2023, at 3:11 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 20:48, Greg Troxel wrote: > (admin_level 4/6/8, normally). > > Would it work to add the admin_level= to the road to say which level of > Government owns it? No, it wouldn't. It would add confusion and ambiguity

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 03:06, Tod Fitch wrote: > the toll roads in my area. They are, I believe, owned by a toll road > authority > Owned, or leased? Around here, toll roads & bridges are built by the Govt, using public funds, then the actual operation is leased to a private company, who

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 20:48, Greg Troxel wrote: > (admin_level 4/6/8, normally). > Would it work to add the admin_level= to the road to say which level of Government owns it? Then I would think that a search should be able to say that this is an AL2 highway in the country of Norway, so owned

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Tod Fitch
I am no expert on the subject but from what I see in my part of California things can get very confusing. Take, for example, the toll roads in my area. They are, I believe, owned by a toll road authority which is a governmental entity specifically created to finance, build and manage the toll

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging
Hi Greg. Those are valid concerns. I don't know how this works in other countries. The way it works here is that the road owner contracts someone to do stuff, that is, to actually go out and put down asphalt, cut vegetation, sweep debris, clear snow, fix signage, etc. The road owner can

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Greg Troxel
Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging writes: > That does seem to capture it when used on roads. I see it's mostly > used for private roads. Is this tag use undisputed if used with > national/state/county/municipal? E.g. do people object to it being > redudant? You said you didn't like operator, and I

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Mark Reidel
On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 09:59 +0200, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging wrote: > That does seem to capture it when used on roads. I see it's mostly > used > for private roads. Is this tag use undisputed if used with > national/state/county/municipal? E.g. do people object to it being > redudant? I

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Illia Marchenko
Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging : > Thank you Timeo. > > It seems the designation tag was meant for something else, and only used > for this purpose in the Philippines. Do you think this usage would be > beneficial in other countries? > If the owner of the road can be inferred from its

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging
Thank you Timeo. It seems the designation tag was meant for something else, and only used for this purpose in the Philippines. Do you think this usage would be beneficial in other countries? Jens On 13.04.2023 10:00, Timeo Gut wrote: In the Philippines we use designation

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Timeo Gut
In the Philippines we use designation to record the legal classification of public roads: designation=national_road/provincial_road/municipal_road/etc. This directly indicates ownership and financial responsibility. But maintenance might

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging
Thank you Mark. That does seem to capture it when used on roads. I see it's mostly used for private roads. Is this tag use undisputed if used with national/state/county/municipal? E.g. do people object to it being redudant? Jens On 13.04.2023 09:45, Mark Reidel wrote: On Thu, 2023-04-13 at

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Mark Reidel
On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 08:58 +0200, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging wrote: > The status quo for "car" roads in Norway seems to be that state roads > are highway=motorway or highway=trunk, county roads are > highway=primary > or highway=secondary, and municipal roads are highway=tertiary and so > on.

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging
Thanks Martin. The operator tag seems to be concerned with different, but probably sometimes partially overlapping, information. It doesn't seem suited to capture the type of road authority. Jens On 13.04.2023 09:28, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone On 13 Apr 2023, at 09:04,

Re: [Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 13 Apr 2023, at 09:04, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging > wrote: > > I couldn't find an official way to capture this information in OSM. > Is there one? you could use the operator tag (although it doesn’t relate to ownership, it is about the entity in charge of

[Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

2023-04-13 Thread Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging
Hi. In Norway, roads are owned by the state, a county, a municipality, or a private entity. Ownership of the road implies general responsibility for maintenance and authority over signage and usage. I assume most countries divide road ownership and authority in a similar way. As an example