[Tagging] service vs. unclassified, conflicting definitions

[Kevin Broderick]

Another exception in New England, particularly, is that some states
(especially New Hampshire and Vermont) have a non-trivial number of
driveways that are privately maintained but in whole or part legally public
right of ways. In some cases, three public right of way continues past the
maintained portion of the driveway as a woods road of some variety; in
others, they end in someone's yard.

To me, tagging those as driveway with appropriate access info and tagging
the woods road, where applicable, as track seems appropriate even though
they are pubic right of ways.

On Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 06:43 stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> Ah, I thought of an exception:  a service=alley is (usually, around here,
> in California) a public way, but it IS more "service-" oriented, like maybe
> it only gets used for rare, backyard-access by owners (which would be
> exclusively private use), but maybe it DOES get used for trash collection
> (which would be a public use).
>
> Sometimes we need to type these things out loud to "riff through the
> possibilities."  Hey, they don't call these "talk lists" (well, mail-lists,
> too) for nothing.
>
> > On Oct 1, 2022, at 3:25 AM, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
> >
> > Makes sense to me, too, Greg.  I don't know if it helps or hinders wider
> understanding, but I understand what Greg is saying here, and while his
> perspective is "Eastern USA" (and mine is "Western USA"), these don't seem
> far apart or even different at all, and there may likely be a further
> possible refinement here:
> >
> > "unclassified" roads, as a "real legal roads" are "in public," and
> subject to traffic rules/laws/ordinances, and
> >
> > "service" roads, as "private driveways, parking lot aisles and other
> roads not in the public grid of road network" are "on private property" and
> not (as) subject to traffic rules/laws/ordinances.
> >
> > That's admittedly rough, but it does add something that I believe is
> true here.  Maybe it helps, maybe not.
>
>
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