Sections of shared, non-public service road, are certainly a common feature of modern housing developments.
I have considered them to be private driveways. Private does not require a sign, walk down any suburban street in Europe or North America and you will see hundreds of driveways, without signs or gates and nobody will assume there is a public right of way there. Phil (trigpoint) On Tuesday, 5 November 2019, Jez Nicholson wrote: > Personally, I would only call the short bits of tarmac that spur off that > service road as 'driveways' because they each go to a single house. I'm > sure that there are examples of shared driveways in the UK but I would > consider them rare. > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 1:52 PM Dave F via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> > wrote: > > > Hi > > > > In the UK, Amazon Logistics are adding useful data from their GPS'd > > delivery vehicles. Mainly highway=service as the last part of their > > journey to a destination. > > > > However, one of their contributors removed service=driveway from a > > highway=service road. In the changeset comments they said it was because > > it served multiple residential properties. > > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/76576604#map=19/51.33398/-2.27945 > > > > From memory, it wasn't signed as private, but it appears to be > > unadopted by the local authority (There are no raised kerbed pavements, > > drainage or lighting). I'm assuming it's shared ownership. > > > > For indicative purposes only. (The image is ten years old): > > > > https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3343975,-2.278377,3a,60y,185.39h,67.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5I6ruGYQsgQv4cC0iLM6SA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 > > > > Personally I see no problem tagging this as a driveway even if it's shared. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > DaveF > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging