On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 06:12:09 -0500 Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Clifford Snow > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I map driveway when the house is set a distance from the main > > > road, often time when the house can't be seen from the road. > > > Mainly rural areas. I figure that it might help volunteer fire > > > and rescue operations. > > > > > > In many rural areas, such drives are now required to be Named > > Private Ways with appropriate signage, for just such assistance. > > (County-wide consolidated E-911 dispatch is driving this in e.g. > > Maine.) > > Seems to vary quite a bit by area; I'm surprised to hear about Maine > on that. Previously the only place I knew of with this practice was > select neighborhoods in El Paso County, Colorado > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1411335>. Mostly because I > kept coming across named private ways that were named by people who > were apparently resentful of the practice, with the topper being A > Dog Will Lick His Butt But Won't Eat A Pickle Road > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/388029001>. The more common > practice I've seen is to address number away from the nearest town > and post the address number at the end of the driveway on a name sign > blank. This can get fairly laughable in remote regions, I've seen > house numbers approach 7 figures as a result. Local practice (Spokane County and most nearby counties in eastern Washington) is that a private drive should be given a name if it serves at least three houses, or if it would otherwise be beneficial for emergency services for it to have a name. Other drives merely take the house number, as determined by the county's address grid. -- Mark _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
