FWIW _bike_ routers love service roads, at least when they run parallel to classified roads. Most are capable of dealing with "private" tags though
Get BlueMail for Android On 30 Jan 2025, 17:06, at 17:06, Jez Nicholson <[email protected]> wrote: >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 >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
_______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
