[Tagging] highway=service, service=driveway vs highway=track

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Mike is right, a driveway to a residential property should be
highway=service + service=driveway, not highway=track, even if it unpaved
dirt.

This mis-tagging is probably common because OpenStreetMap-Carto and some
other common map styles do not distinguish between unpaved and paved
service roads. (We're working on it:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3399)

-- Joseph Eisenberg

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:00 AM Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 18:46, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have always been under the impression that the highway tag should be
>> based off of function.  Recently I have come across a number of cases
>> where driveways and residential roads were tagged "highway=track"
>> (perhaps because they are unpaved?), e.g. [0].  Before I change these,
>> I wanted to check with the rest of the community.
>
>
> It is not uncommon around this part of Wales for farms to have service
> roads leading to them that barely qualify as a track.  If it's functioning
> as a service road or driveway,   Those are tough calls.
>
> --
> Paul
>
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