Hi Andrew,
From your description in example A, it sounds like you are describing
frontage roads (what we would call service roads in Australia). Rather
confusingly, the service tag isn't the best tag for these roads;
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Frontage_road has a good
explanation.
Dian
On 2021-11-19 15:56, Andrew Hughes wrote:
Hi Again,
With regards to service roads. I would like to know if there is a
tagging convention that would provide a distinction between roads that
appear to all fall under highway=service for the following examples:
Example A: This is what is referred to "traditionally" as a "service
road" (outside the OSM world that is). I'd describe it as,a minor road
that is associated with a major road, it runs parallel to its major
road counterpart and gives general access to the local area so that the
major road is occupied by traffic that does not want to stop in the
local area https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/118171809
Example B: A way (perhaps even a driveway or parking_isle?) that
provides access to a carpark. It's not really paired with a major road
and is not designed to "split" the local traffic from traffic passing
through as per A https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28262128
The main difference I feel between A and B is that A is really part of
a major/bigger arterial way and services the local needs that the
arterial way will not. B is not really a thoroughfare and is more in
line with the "destination" rather than a thoroughfare. You only use
the B way to access the carpark(s). Someone else might have a better
interpretation however I do feel like on the ground they are very
different roads and tagging with highway=services alone doesn't reflect
that.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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