[talk-au] Service Roads?

[Dian Ågesson]

Hi Andrew,

 From your description in example A, it sounds like you are describing 
frontage roads (what we would call service roads in Australia). Rather 
confusingly, the service tag isn't the best tag for these roads; 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Frontage_road has a good 
explanation.

Dian

On 2021-11-19 15:56, Andrew Hughes wrote:

> Hi Again,
> 
> With regards to service roads. I would like to know if there is a 
> tagging convention that would provide a distinction between roads that 
> appear to all fall under highway=service for the following examples:
> 
> Example A: This is what is referred to "traditionally" as a "service 
> road" (outside the OSM world that is). I'd describe it as,a minor road 
> that is associated with a major road, it runs parallel to its major 
> road counterpart and gives general access to the local area so that the 
> major road is occupied by traffic that does not want to stop in the 
> local area https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/118171809
> 
> Example B: A way (perhaps even a driveway or parking_isle?) that 
> provides access to a carpark. It's not really paired with a major road 
> and is not designed to "split" the local traffic from traffic passing 
> through as per A  https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28262128
> 
> The main difference I feel between A and B is that A is really part of 
> a major/bigger arterial way and services the local needs that the 
> arterial way will not. B is not really a thoroughfare and is more in 
> line with the "destination" rather than a thoroughfare. You only use 
> the B way to access the carpark(s). Someone else might have a better 
> interpretation however I do feel like on the ground they are very 
> different roads and tagging with highway=services alone doesn't reflect 
> that.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Andrew
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