[talk-au] Shared driveways

Kim Oldfield osm at oldfield.wattle.id.au
Fri Sep 24 11:33:14 UTC 2021


The wiki suggests you should use the addr tags instead:

addr:street=Jardine Road
addr:housenumber=32
addr:unit=a/b/c or leave off for common driveway

I have tried this in the past, but validation tools complained.
I'm not sure if it is acceptable to set an address on a driveway.

On 24/9/21 10:02 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> z
> On Fri, 24 Sept 2021 at 09:40, <forster at ozonline.com.au 
> <mailto:forster at ozonline.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>     I see that you have named the driveways. How does this sit with
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only
>     <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only>
>
>
> I don't "think" it goes against the grain of anything listed there?
>
> No, driveways aren't (usually) signposted, but there will usually be a 
> mail box beside them saying "32" - is that good enough to use as a 
> street sign?
>
> As mentioned, I did it that way to help people find the property - if 
> there's overwhelming objection to it, I'll stop!
>
>  Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
>
>     ?
>
>     Tony
>
>     > On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 20:17, Tom Brennan
>     <website at ozultimate.com <mailto:website at ozultimate.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> Graeme - are you saying that you are tagging them all the same?
>     Just as
>     >> separate ways?
>     >>
>     >
>     > Yep.
>     >
>     > Here's one that I did recently:
>     > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-28.07919/153.23456
>     <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-28.07919/153.23456>, which was
>     > apparently a single property that was sub-divided.
>     >
>     > (Notes: I've just repositioned 32b's driveway as new imagery
>     shows it
>     > further over to the side, & 32d could have it's own short stub,
>     but it's
>     > not visible)
>     >
>     > Anybody (particularly Emergency Services!) can see that to get
>     to 32 you go
>     > down here, & B is over there, C down that way, D right beside
>     the road & A
>     > is right up the end.
>     >
>     > "32" is a service=driveway (+ access=private) from the road in
>     to the A / C
>     > junction, & each of the other three are exactly the same from 32
>     to each
>     > house.
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     > Graeme
>     >
>
>
>
>
>
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