On Sunday 24 August 2008 12:06:56 Douglas Furlong wrote:
> 2008/8/24 Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > On Sunday 24 August 2008 02:41:29 Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > i've been using service roads for a variety of small, relatively
> > > > insignificant roads, such as alleyways between buildings, driveways
> > > > to stately homes, roads around school/university/hospital campuses
> > > > and so on, but something else recently has made me wonder whether to
> > > > use it more: in auckland, there are thousands of houses with very
> > > > long driveways, sometimes 300m. is this an acceptable use for the
> > > > tag?
> > >
> > > IMO: yes, perfect usage.
> >
> > Are you sure?
> >
> > I used to think so too, but lately I have reconsidered.
> >
> > One way to look at highway=service is that it should be used for roads
> > that we
> > wouldn't really miss if they weren't rendered at all. Good examples can
> > be found above: roads between buildings, short drives to or on parking
> > lots, roads to fuel stations, etc.
> >
> > Long driveways to houses *would* probably be missed, at least I would
> > miss them. So I would myself instead use highway=unclassified, possibly
> > with surface=unpaved if that is the case.
>
> And access=private I assume?
>
> If we are mapping people's drive ways, I would have thought we should also
> be stating that they are private property (begs the question, what we are
> doing on their land in the first place.
I see that I may have misunderstood the word 'driveway'. As a non-native
English speaker, I wasn't aware that it meant "private way up to a house". My
interpretation was "a public way up to the property", at which end the
private part would start.
In that case, I take back what I wrote above, and agree that highway=service
would be perfect.
-Inge
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