Hi The definition of a service road seems a bit arbitrary even in the official tagging policy mentioned: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway One man's service road is another man's narrow residential road.
"Armchair mapping" is dangerous if you are not properly ground truthing changes and you have not specified the criteria that you are using on imagery to determine whether a road qualifies as a service road or not. I for one do not see the value that changing these tags would add other than shape the data according to Apple's criteria for what Apple wants in a map, which is not what OpenStreetMap is about. Regards On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 22:41, Andrew Wiseman via Talk-ZA < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is Andrew from Apple again. Earlier in the year I emailed about our > team working on some road network improvements ( > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-za/2019-January/001248.html) > and lately we have had some discussions about road classification around > service roads and residential roads after we added some missing ones. I > wanted to let you all know what we were thinking and get your feedback to > see if you agree or have other suggestions. > > The South African Tagging Guidelines ( > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_African_Tagging_Guidelines) > don’t mention service roads at all, and the global tagging guidelines ( > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway) describe service roads > to be used for specific commercial/industrial estates or > driveways/alleys/car parks. It was suggested to us that service should be > used for private roads to access buildings, which are generally dead end > and/or have barriers or gates, and short roads that don’t have names. > > This seems logical to us, and if others agree with that maybe the South > African Tagging Guidelines can be updated with that information. We can > make the edits to the Wiki page if you’d like. > > We are also currently going back and changing roads to service to fit > these suggestions in and around Cape Town. > > One tricky point in the suggestions is that we can’t tell from aerial > imagery which ones don’t have names, so those might get missed. What does > everyone think of that point? > > Thanks! > > Andrew > > Andrew Wiseman | Maps | iPhone: +1.202.270.4464 | > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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