[Tagging] Service=* used for highways and railways

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:28 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 July 2010 17:25, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For some reason it completely escaped me that service=* is supposed to
>> be used for both railways (eg, service=spur) and roads
>> (service=alley). I don't really want to debate this situation with a
>> view to changing it, but could someone give me a quick explanation on
>> how this arose? It seems a little odd, and somewhat confusing, to me.
>
> It's only confusing if viewed without other tags for context...
>
> highway=service and railway=service etc, would give you the context
> needed then anything else just gives you more details about what type
> of service way...

Actually it's railway=rail service=*. There could be a problem if a
rail spur runs down the middle of a service road.