[Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

Jens Glad Balchen balchen at saint-etienne.no
Thu Apr 13 08:20:12 UTC 2023


Thank you Timeo.

It seems the designation tag was meant for something else, and only used 
for this purpose in the Philippines. Do you think this usage would be 
beneficial in other countries?

Jens

On 13.04.2023 10:00, Timeo Gut wrote:
> 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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