[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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