[Tagging] edit war related to tagging of a bus-only major road

[Jmapb]

On 12/9/2020 9:36 AM, Michael Tsang wrote:

> Des Voeux Road Central is considered one of the most important roads
> in the area which I
> tagged it as highway=secondary, however another editor has repeatedly
> changed
> it to highway=service on the fact that that road is closed to motor
> vehicles
> except buses....
>
Hi Michael, my understanding is that this type of access restriction has
no bearing on the correct value of the highway tag. That doesn't mean
that a bus-only road can't be 'highway=service', but my armchair opinion
is that this one deserves a higher classification,
'highway=unclassified' at minimum. Obviously a local consensus would be
best.

As far as the access tags go, from your description I imagined
'access=private' plus 'bus=yes', and 'foot=yes' if there's sidewalk that
isn't mapped separately. The segment you linked to (
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/242113655 ) has tags that are a bit
more complicated; no doubt they make sense in context. It's worth
noting, though, that it currently allows bicycle traffic.

Here's a photo showing the bus-only segment and signed restrictions --
https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=V6xCvni7pFMnBkHoXfZcIw&focus=photo&lat=22.28064006188889&lng=114.16016743519445&z=17&x=0.5090835219500857&y=0.5090768471784388

Jason