[Tagging] highway=service // public road?

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 08:14:34PM +1000, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> On 23 May 2018 at 23:09, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:
> >
> > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/service#values
> >
> > Looking at the values only 10% of the service=* are alley.
> >
> > What about highway=service without service=* ?
> 
> A lot of these are simply a lower classification than residential but don't
> meet the qualification for alley, or any of the other service tags. In my
> region these are commonly named as streets with the suffix "... Lane"
> instead of "... Street" or "... Road".

Interestingly the key:highway wiki page lists unclassified as
the lowest classification of a road:

	"The least most important through roads in a country's system"

So using service as an even lower class road contradicts what has
been in the Wiki for ages.

IMHO service is a special road like a track. Its not part of 
a classification of the public road system but used on mostly
private property - Thats what the wiki says for like 10 years?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway

	"For access roads to, or within an industrial estate, camp site,
	business park, car park etc. Can be used in conjunction with service=*
	to indicate the type of usage and with access=* to indicate who can use
	it and in what circumstances."

So using service as a replacement for a narrow residential or
a small unclassified is mapping for the renderer isnt it?

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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