Dave F via Tagging <[email protected]> writes: > 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
I think a shared driveway is still a driveway. That's why we call it "shared dirveway". The difference at some point between "shared driveway" and "road in a subdivision" is perhaps in terms of the number of houses, but in Massachusetts is very much about the land ownership and the road being its own lot. As for "signed as private", around me it is fairly unusual for residential driveways, shared or not, to be signed "private" or "no trespassing". I'd guess 1 in 100, and maybe 1 in 20 of very long ones. It's obvious to those who are paying attention what is a road and what is a driveway, usually because width makes it clear, plus the lack of road sign. So I think mapping as access=private is appropriate even if not signed, because on a driveway on private property the public does not have a right of access, even if they aren't "trespassing after notice". If other people had tagged in driveway, and amazon removed it as part of a large-scale paid edit, I think that's totally not ok. If they are just declining to add drvieway tags while putting in ways, that's fine. I see large-scale paid edits as part way to mechanical edits, and think they have to be more deferential than normal mappers. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
