On 15/11/2024 17:19, Andy Mabbett wrote:
A new development near my home is on a newly created, unadopted road [1]. The street signs say "Maryvale Rise / Private road" [2], but there is no suggestion that access is restricted. Another road nearby is similar [3, 4], and is tagged "access=private", but the wiki says that is for cases where "Public access is not allowed. Access is granted with individual permission only. Examples: A driveway with a no trespassing or keep out sign; A company parking lot for employees only. " How should each be tagged? Do we tag "Unadopted" separately to access?
I'm not sure we can usefully tag the adoption status of a road, since it's not always visible on the ground and the only reliable source is the NSG, which isn't open data.
Personally, I'd be inclined to treat privately owned roads that form part of the general highway network (eg, an unadopted road on a housing development) in exactly the same way as publicly owned roads, unless explicitly signed otherwise. I'd only tag them as private, in the access sense, if there is signage on the ground which indicates that access is restricted. The wiki explicitly states that the "private" tag relates to access, not ownership.
So I think your second example (Roman Road) should be tagged as private (probably with access=destination), because the sign says that, but not the first (Maryvale Rise), because the sign merely states ownership rather than access restrictions.
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