Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

Apr 30, 2020, 19:45 by miketh...@gmail.com: > Hello, > > I have always been under the impression that the highway tag should be > based off of function. Recently I have come across a number of cases > where driveways and residential roads were tagged "highway=track" > (perhaps because they

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:45:48 -0400 Greg Troxel wrote: > Mike Thompson writes: > > > I have always been under the impression that the highway tag should > > be based off of function. Recently I have come across a number of > > cases where driveways and residential roads were tagged > >

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 9:26 AM Philip Barnes wrote: > > I agree with AEL, people who live in there tend to take that into > account when they buy vehicles and tend to own 4x4s. These are all roads which a normal car can navigate. Not everyone that lives in these areas drives a 4x4.

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 13:52 -0600, Mike Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:28 PM ael wrote: > > > I would not be comfortable tagging very rough tracks as anything > > but a track: > > if it requires a 4 wheel drive or agricultural vehicle to > > negotiate. > > I think a "road" normally

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 4:15 PM Tod Fitch wrote: > In the rural southern Arizona community where my parents retired the only > real way to tell the difference between a track and a service+driveway+upaved > is whether you end up at a house in a reasonable amount of distance. In all of the

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

> On Apr 30, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Paul Allen wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 19:17, Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: > > This mis-tagging is probably common because OpenStreetMap-Carto and some > other common map styles do not distinguish between unpaved and

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:45 PM Greg Troxel wrote: > Not really germane to driveways, but a major distinction, at least > around me (ma.us) is that > > a road is a legal thing, with its own parcel > > a track is an agricultural road, or old time logging road, within a > parcel Here in

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

Mike Thompson writes: > I have always been under the impression that the highway tag should be > based off of function. Recently I have come across a number of cases > where driveways and residential roads were tagged "highway=track" > (perhaps because they are unpaved?), e.g. [0]. Before I

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:28 PM ael wrote: > I would not be comfortable tagging very rough tracks as anything but a track: > if it requires a 4 wheel drive or agricultural vehicle to negotiate. > I think a "road" normally implies navigation with a standard vehicle is > possible. In general that

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 06:58:55PM +0100, Paul Allen wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 18:46, Mike Thompson wrote: > > > > > I have always been under the impression that the highway tag should be > > based off of function. Recently I have come across a number of cases > > where driveways and

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 19:17, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > > This mis-tagging is probably common because OpenStreetMap-Carto and some > other common map styles do not distinguish between unpaved and paved > service roads. (We're working on it: >

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

Mike is right, a driveway to a residential property should be highway=service + service=driveway, not highway=track, even if it unpaved dirt. This mis-tagging is probably common because OpenStreetMap-Carto and some other common map styles do not distinguish between unpaved and paved service

Re: [Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 18:46, Mike Thompson wrote: > > I have always been under the impression that the highway tag should be > based off of function. Recently I have come across a number of cases > where driveways and residential roads were tagged "highway=track" > (perhaps because they are