Hi, in the past 10 years or so my impression of a service road was that it is typically not a public road per se and not part of the other roads classifications. It is a piece of tarmac built for a specific purpose by somebody not necessarily the public authorities. The public most likely does not have a right of way although this might need additional tagging.
I now see increasing usage of service roads as a category below unclassified. People tagging "smaller roads" in the countryside as a service roads. I find this a little disturbing and now got into an argument whereas my position is the above - broken down into my more strict language: - If the public has a right of way - The road is build/run by public authorities - Its not something obvious like a parking space - It cant be service It might not fit 100% everywhere, but no rule without its exception. The Argument of the usage is: - It only serves as access to a single house/company/farm. IMHO It should be driveway (Where there is no right of way and no name) when its not in public ownership, or unclassified with all the bells and whistles like a name, maxspeed etc. To find those roads in my QA tools i dump/highlight roads which are highway=service and carry a name. The argument behind this is that at least in Germany only official public roads get names in a process called "Widmung" 1) - So if it carries a name, either the name has been copied (E.g. people copying the residentials name to all driveways) or somebody has "downgraded" a public road to a service. So i am asking where my misconception is: - Is service a street category below unclassified/residential? - Does a service road typically have a right of way for the public? - Is service usage "just because there is only one house/company/farm" valid? Flo 1) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fenwidmung -- Florian Lohoff [email protected] UTF-8 Test: The 🐈 ran after a 🐁, but the 🐁 ran away
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