On 28 Aug 2009, at 20:15, Matt Williams wrote: > 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.
I decided not to map any back alleys that didn't provide a through route to anywhere else - ie if a path just provided a back access to a group of houses to get bins out etc then I left them. How about using the key:width tag[1] to indicate the width of these narrow features. Could be very useful for path as well which can vary hugely and would give a clue for the renderer. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:width Regards, Peter > > -- > Matt Williams > http://milliams.com > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
