I found a slightly odd little stretch of road coincidentally while
lookup up something else entirely!
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/24259979
This very short stretch of Nunhide Lane is tagged as a track, whereas
the rest of it is tagged as an unclassified road. From Google Streetview
and Mapillary, though, it doesn't look like a track:
https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=51.440980031397&lng=-1.0671297849032&z=17&pKey=397583471270310&focus=photo&x=0.530938341605445&y=0.45266906993600853&zoom=0.910944013443989
It is a private road, and the access restrictions on both this stretch
and the rest of it are currently correctly tagged (PRoW for bridleway
and footpath, destination only for motor vehicles). But it's not really
a track. And, if this bit is, all of it should be - it's the same all
the way along.
So, I was wondering if maybe someone had tagged it as a track to prevent
routers sending vehicles along it in defiance of the access
restrictions. And, if so, that probably needs to be fixed.
However, I'm inclined to think that "unclassified road" is probably
wrong, too. It is narrower than a typical unclassified road (at least in
that part of the country), and I'd normally use that tag for roads which
are unclassified in the NSG sense (that is, roads which are part of the
public highway network but not M, A, B or C classified). Private access
roads are a different thing. The wiki also says that "unclassified" is
for roads which "serve a purpose other than access to properties",
which, being a private, access-only road, is precisely what this lane
doesn't do!
What I'm thinking of doing, therefore, is changing the whole length of
the lane, including this short stretch, to be tagged as a service road
(and retaining the access restrictions, obviously).
Does that make sense, before I go ahead and do it?
Mark
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