The point of that link was that most of them aren’t highway=service to start with, so service=* wouldn’t apply to most of them.
From: Andrew Hughes <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2021 08:55 To: Dian Ågesson <[email protected]> Cc: OSM Australian Talk List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [talk-au] Service Roads? 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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