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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 23, 2020, 20:41 by kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 4:31 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging<br></div><div><tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<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><div><br></div><div>The case that I scratch my head over is a road whose primary purpose<br></div><div>is farming or forestry, but that is also the path of access to<br></div><div>someone's cabin.<br></div></blockquote><div>OK, I agree that this one is tricky, and this case is more complicated.<br></div><div>I limited my discussion to single use roads (either track or driveway),<br></div><div>because I was trying to attack "something used solely as driveway<br></div><div>but low quality may not be tagged as a driveway" what is clearly wrong.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I forgot about this case where something is actually both driveway and both track.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> You seem to be saying that the presence of a dwelling<br></div><div>trumps all other uses, but that doesn't make sense to me. Some of the<br></div><div>cabins on inholdings in the forests around here are accessed by ATV or<br></div><div>snowmobile, depending on the season, because the road has deteriorated<br></div><div>beyond what a typical SUV can handle. (No, they don't get Amazon<br></div><div>deliveries.)<br></div></blockquote><div>This problem is just avoided by my formulation<br></div><div>(or maybe holiday cabin still counts as a residence?).<br></div><div><br></div><div>But in some cases you have one house or one isolated group of <br></div><div>houses deep in a forest.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In this case I would say that last stage (road connecting this dwelling<br></div><div>to the forest track system) is highway=service, service=driveway,<br></div><div>without downgrading entire forest track system to a driveway status.<br></div><div><br></div><div>So maybe my claim should be<br></div><div>"something used solely or primarily as a driveway is a driveway,<br></div><div>no matter its physical characteristics (surface, lane count, smoothness,<br></div><div>access, ownership).<br></div><div><br></div><div>And therefore tagged as highway=service service=driveway"<br></div><div>?<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> I also don't want to say that a logging track is a<br></div><div>residential driveway just because there's one guy with a parcel<br></div><div>somewhere fifteen miles off the highway, when the only other traffic<br></div><div>on the track is International Paper's trucks.<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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