[Tagging] Default access for service=driveway?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

A property owner in Germany has complained that several routing engines
- crucially also the one used by the local transport authority - route
pedestrians trough their private residential property as a "shortcut"
for accessing a bus stop.

The private residential property has two driveways (highway=service,
service=driveway) entering it from different sides, thereby enabling
people to save a few metres by walking through, rather than around, the
property.

These driveways do not have an access=private (or access=destination)
tag or anything like that.

Questions:

1. Should a routing engine automatically assume that something tagged a
"driveway" is not suitable for through traffic?

2. If you map such driveways, would you add access=private (or
access=destination) in OSM...

2a. ... even if there is no specific signage locally?
2b. ... if there is a sign that says "access to houses X,Y,Z" without
saying that other access is forbidden?
2c. ... if there is a sign that says "private driveway"?

Bye
Frederik
	
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