Thanks All, Graeme: naming might help, but I am not sure if they would conflict with an official signposted name.
Dian: Interesting with the "frontage road". Yes, that is suitable but the tagging guidelines do not have anything unique about these roads. They are simply the standard (non _link) highway=* tags. Perhaps "service"="frontage road" would help, but I don't know if this would collide with other conventions. Thanks all! On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 22:13, Dian Ågesson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > >
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