[Tagging] Tagging type of ownership of a road

[Jens Glad Balchen]

On 14.04.2023 10:13, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> Ownership is not relevant if you think in terms of fixmystreet..
> Just two extreme examples.
>
>   * The Italian Motorway network is owned by the Italian via a
>     state-majority public company, and operated by several different
>     private or state-owned companies that to all effects own specific
>     parts of the network. They take the road toll and do all the
>     maintenance.
>   * I lived for a couple of years in city (in the US) The street was
>     property of the city, the drainage system was theirs, but I had to
>     clean the street in front of the house up to the middle from the
>     leaves falling from the trees that the city had planted. If the
>     drainage does not work, who is the operator or owner?
>

LIke I summarised earlier, it seems the most important information to 
capture is ownership=*. Owner can be derived from ownership 
geograhically almost all of the time, and if not, can be captured 
separately in owner=* as needed. If and when the relevant operator is 
different from the owner, operator=* can captured.

Per your example, as a citizen of said US city, if I had a complaint 
about drainage malfunctions, wouldn't I be expected to contact the city? 
I would think the reasonable approach was to contact the city, and the 
city would in turn contact you if they determine that the cause and 
responsibilites justify it.

We have the same thing in Norway. Property owners in the city are 
required by local law to clear snow from sidewalks adjacent to their 
property. Property owners in the suburbs are not. As a member of the 
public who had a complaint about a slippery sidewalk, I would contact 
the city, and the city would need to delegate when appropriate.

So for Fixmystreet, ownership (and owner derived from that) seems to be 
very relevant.

Cheers,

Jens
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