[Tagging] track vs footway, cycleway, bridleway or path

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 22, 2020, 00:50 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

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>>> On 21. May 2020, at 23:17, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> A way that is used to access a private residence from a public road is highway=service, service=driveway (functional classification), unless it is too long (exact distance not specified), or too rough (physical classification).
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>> If this is confusing for an experienced mapper and geodata geek, how are data users/consumers supposed to figure this out?
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> I guess the “if the driveway is too long, make a part of it service”-rule is actually there to help data consumers (if it’s very long it might be worth showing it earlier, assuming you hide driveways earlier than service roads). 
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? standard tagging is highway=service with service=driveway

Removal of service=driveway in such case is an incorrect mapping for renderer and
damaging OSM data.

Not adding service=driveway in such case is an incomplete mapping that anyone may
improve by adding service=driveway.

> If the driveway is too rough, it maybe isn’t a driveway any more
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It is extremely rare - if there is single access road to a private residence 
then it is a driveway no matter whatever it is paved asphalt road or 
something that requires tractor to pass.

Maybe it would matter in case where there is one road used as driveway and
second road that may be used to access property but is unused, possibly due to 
poor state.

But that would because one functions as driveway and one not. 
In case of people using worse-quality road as a driveway 
and not using better quality road as a driveway
the tagging also should follow function and road used as driveway
should be tagged as driveway.

> , it will depend on the other driveways in the area what is acceptable as a driveway
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Driveway may be of any quality. highway=service with service=driveway may
be unpaved, muddy and require tractor to pass.

If it is driveway then it still should be tagged as such, not as highway=track.

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