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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 22, 2020, 00:50 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><blockquote>On 21. May 2020, at 23:17, Mike Thompson <miketho16@gmail.com> wrote:<br></blockquote><div>A way that is used to access a private residence from a public road is highway=service, service=driveway (functional classification), unless it is too long (exact distance not specified), or too rough (physical classification).<br></div><div><br></div><div>If this is confusing for an experienced mapper and geodata geek, how are data users/consumers supposed to figure this out?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I guess the “if the driveway is too long, make a part of it service”-rule is actually there to help data consumers (if it’s very long it might be worth showing it earlier, assuming you hide driveways earlier than service roads). <br></div></blockquote><div>? standard tagging is highway=service with service=driveway<br></div><div><br></div><div>Removal of service=driveway in such case is an incorrect mapping for renderer and<br></div><div>damaging OSM data.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Not adding service=driveway in such case is an incomplete mapping that anyone may<br></div><div>improve by adding service=driveway.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>If the driveway is too rough, it maybe isn’t a driveway any more<br></div></blockquote><div>It is extremely rare - if there is single access road to a private residence <br></div><div>then it is a driveway no matter whatever it is paved asphalt road or <br></div><div>something that requires tractor to pass.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe it would matter in case where there is one road used as driveway and<br></div><div>second road that may be used to access property but is unused, possibly due to <br></div><div>poor state.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But that would because one functions as driveway and one not. <br></div><div>In case of people using worse-quality road as a driveway <br></div><div>and not using better quality road as a driveway<br></div><div>the tagging also should follow function and road used as driveway<br></div><div>should be tagged as driveway.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>, it will depend on the other driveways in the area what is acceptable as a driveway<br></div></blockquote><div>Driveway may be of any quality. highway=service with service=driveway may<br></div><div>be unpaved, muddy and require tractor to pass.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If it is driveway then it still should be tagged as such, not as highway=track.<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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