[Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

[Mark Reidel]

On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 09:59 +0200, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging wrote:
> 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?

I think that's a question for the Norwegian OSM community. Over here in
Germany, we don't have a clear mapping of the highway value to the
ownership of the roads (except for highway=motorway), so adding
information like ownership=state would be beneficial. But instead,
we're moving to using the network-key like network=DE:<type>. But for
different reasons, which is why you can't really compare these 2
scenarios.

I think, the Norwegian community should decide which approach they want
to use and whether tagging ownership=* on a road where the ownership
could be determined by the highway=* tag is meaningful or not. If
nothing else, it could be used for double-checking, whether the
highway-class and the ownership are matching.

But I don't see any problem using ownership=* on footways or cycleways,
which was the actual original question if I got that right.

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