> 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.
A significant proportion of the highway=service objects in OSM won't meet that assumption. Think alley ways. > - Is service a street category below unclassified/residential? Yes > - Does a service road typically have a right of way for the public? It might make sense for highway=service + service=driveway to assume access=private, but service=alley I would assume to be a public road just like any other and at for a lot of regions almost all would be public roads. It's best to explicitly spell out the access (access=*) separately from the classification (highway=*) to avoid any doubt. On 23 May 2018 at 17:18, Florian Lohoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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