2009/8/28 Chris Hill <[email protected]>: > In many towns and cities in the UK there are small ways behind rows of > houses. In my part of the world (Yorkshire) we know them as a tenfoot > (they are traditionally 10 feet wide). > > I have not mapped many - they often seem private to the houses, but > today I did follow a couple. I wonder how everyone else would tag > them. I have tentatively tagged them as highway=alley (not yet in the > map features) since this feels a bit more international than tenfoot. I > could use highway=service, I suppose they are service roads, but they > feel a bit different from a service road leading to a fuel station or > supermarket, particularly narrower and with very sharp corners around > buildings.
Recently there's been a lot more use of highway=service service=<something> where <something> is driveway or parking aisle etc. Looking at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:service it seems there's a mention there of service=alley. I guess it could be useful for these. In my experience these are often used by the binman and friends since they offer easier access but are not supposed to be used by normal cars. This should differentiate these 'serviceway alleys' from the smaller 5 foot (or so) alleyways that you can also get behind houses. I've been tagging those as highway=footway thus far. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
