[Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

[Timeo Gut]

In the Philippines we use designation 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation> to record the 
legal classification of public roads:
designation=national_road/provincial_road/municipal_road/etc.

This directly indicates ownership and financial responsibility. But 
maintenance might be delegated to another authority, e.g. national roads 
are maintained by the provincial engineering offices.

If responsibility areas of public works offices are identical to 
administrative boundaries then a combination of designation tagging and 
spatial queries could be used to locate the authority in charge.


On 2023-04-13 15:34, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging wrote:
> Thanks Martin.
>
> The operator tag seems to be concerned with different, but probably 
> sometimes partially overlapping, information. It doesn't seem suited 
> to capture the type of road authority.
>
> Jens
>
> On 13.04.2023 09:28, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 13 Apr 2023, at 09:04, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging 
>>> <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I couldn't find an official way to capture this information in OSM.
>>> Is there one?
>>
>> you could use the operator tag (although it doesn’t relate to 
>> ownership, it is about the entity in charge of maintenance, and there 
>> could be several different entities on a specific level, e.g. two 
>> entities in charge of national highways)
>
>
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