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

[Warin]

On 22/5/20 6:24 pm, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 22. May 2020, at 03:10, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This seems to contradict what Mateusz  said. "Way used solely to access a private residence is always highway=service, service=driveway no matter
>> whatever it is short, long, paved, unpaved, lit, unlit, ugly or 22 lanes wide."
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> While I have not so far split service ways because of length, I would not completely reject the idea either (based on local conditions, in my area it isn’t necessary to do it).
> I know Mateusz was exaggerating, but clearly a 22 lanes wide way would very improbably be considered a service=driveway. More likely you would consider it a leisure=pitch ;-)
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> He wrote “used solely to access a residence”, which is less probable the longer the way is (typically you would also use it to access places between its start and end), so it is not necessarily contradicting.


To access some residences in Australia you have to drive ~100km off the public roads.

While there might (or might not) be a water tank along the way the fact remains the road is the driveway.
And no amazon etc will not deliver, you have to drive to there 'local' depot.



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