This OSM Help question: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/20749/deciding-driveway-vs-private-residential came to the opposite conclusion: that highway=residential should only be for public roads, maintained by the municipality, while highway=service is for private roads. Roads in (at least some) office parks, eg. the Dimension Data campus, are all highway=service already ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-26.04178/28.02418).
I doubt we will ever complete mapping of roads inside secured residential estates, and without a way to distinguish public and private roads, we have no way to calculate the naming completeness of public roads. Also highway=living_street seems to be legally enshrined in some countries. We are not on that list, so I am not sure how valid it is here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dliving_street On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 10:31 AM Kieron Thwaites <[email protected]> wrote: > Depending on the purpose of the road within the housing estate, any of > highway=residential, highway=living_street or highway=service may be > appropriate. It depends on what the road is used for: I tend to go with > highway=residential by default, highway=living_street in estates where I > know that the road is considered a shared pedestrian/car space (e.g. within > the estate, pedestrians are considered to have equal or higher right of way > to vehicles) and highway=service for things like delivery access roads. > Local knowledge of the estate is essential to know which to go for. > > As an example, see Wilderness Garden Estate in Wilderness. I used to go > to the neighbouring Wilderness Dunes on holiday, and I know from my surveys > that a mix of highway=living_street and highway=service is appropriate > there. > > It's perfectly acceptable for a road to be unnamed (to go back to my > example, the roads in Wilderness Dunes have no names), and it's perfectly > acceptable for a service road to be named if there is a sign on the ground > indicating such a name. If the road in question is indeed unnamed, > consider use of the noname=* key which should take care of validation: note > that noname=* should only be used in cases where it has been verified that > there is genuinely no name, and that noname=* and name=* should be omitted > entirely if the name is unknown (which is the point of those validation > messages in the first place). > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 20:07, Damjan Jovanovic <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> According to GeoFabrik (View: highways), a large number of roads in JHB >> are missing street names. However most of these are highway=residential >> roads in residential estates / townhouse complexes, that don't have names >> anyway. >> >> Should we be using highway=service instead, inside residential estates? >> >> What about large estates that do have named streets? Should >> highway=service roads be named or should we use a different highway type? >> >> Thank you >> Damjan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ZA mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >
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