[OSM-newbies] Private Street

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Tue Mar 18 06:05:42 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Stephen Johnson <earthstephen at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I have run across a couple of roads that are designated on the road sign
> as "Private Street".  I think this is a jurisdictional designation.  By
> that I mean I think these are streets on the edge of the city limits that
> are not in the city and therefore are privately maintained.  One of these
> streets had a sign that said "City Maintenance Ends".  My question is
> should these roads have the designation "access:private" when they are
> really no more private than any other residential street.
>

The wiki defines access:private as "Only with permission of the owner on an
individual basis." With no access restrictions, I'd would tag them as
residential with no access tag.


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