[Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

Jens Glad Balchen balchen at saint-etienne.no
Thu Apr 13 07:59:37 UTC 2023


Thank you Mark.

That does seem to capture it when used on roads. I see it's mostly used 
for private roads. Is this tag use undisputed if used with 
national/state/county/municipal? E.g. do people object to it being redudant?

Jens

On 13.04.2023 09:45, Mark Reidel wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 08:58 +0200, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging wrote:
>> The status quo for "car" roads in Norway seems to be that state roads
>> are highway=motorway or highway=trunk, county roads are
>> highway=primary
>> or highway=secondary, and municipal roads are highway=tertiary and so
>> on.
>> For cycleways and footways, road ownership is not captured this way,
>> for
>> obvious reasons, but it's equally relevant to be able to capture it.
>>
>> I couldn't find an official way to capture this information in OSM.
>> Is there one?
> If I understand you correctly, you're looking to tag the ownership of a
> road, not the road "network" it belongs to, correct?
>
> In this case, use ownership=*:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ownership
>
> This indicates what type of organization owns land, facility, etc.
>
> Ownership key can be one of:
>
> * national (nation state)
> * state (as in USA) or province (e.g. län in Sweden) or territory
> * county
> * municipal
>>




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