[Tagging] Default access for service=driveway?

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Tue Dec 22 16:29:18 UTC 2020


On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 10:01 AM Florimond Berthoux <
florimond.berthoux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le mar. 22 déc. 2020 à 10:16, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> a
> écrit :
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Tag it as private :)
>

I'm on board with this.  This is one of those situations where there's
enough variation that it makes complete sense to explicitly tag the access
if known.
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