[Tagging] service vs. unclassified, conflicting definitions

[Greg Troxel]

Kevin Broderick <ktb at kevinbroderick.com> writes:

> 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.

In (central, pretty rural) MA, I know of a 'paved area you can drive on'
that is functionally a driveway, but has a name and is in the state's
road dataset with that name.  It is legally a public way and snow is
plowed by the town.  Whether they will ever pave the crumblying pavement
is an open question :-)

But if they aren't named by the government, then driveway seems right,
with access=yes.


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