Sounds like someone is going crazy with people trying to take a shortcut to IKEA. Don't know whether service roads are ignored by routers because I would have thought lots of destinations have them.
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025, 16:53 Mark Goodge, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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