[Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Tom Bloom <tombloom99 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> TIGER drew thousands of driveways that are often simply wrong.
>

So fix them.


> They are tagged private and in my opinion spoil the map appearance with
> little red squiggles all over the place.
>

Don't tag for the renderer, make your own renderer that doesn't include
highway=service; access=private.


> No other map I've found includes them. Looking around the country, I
> notice some areas where they were removed, changed to service roads, drawn
> de novo, and one area (near Rosebud, OR) where they were inexplicably
> changed to living_street, which they just aren't.
>

If you're talking about inside an apartment complex or a collection of
rowhouses, the low (often well under 15 MPH) speed limit and shared space
(parking limited to specific areas and not along the entire route; kids
playing and people walking having priority) nature of the roadway is
roughly equal to a living street.


> I've been deleting them if wildly wrong, and would like to delete all I
> encounter. Any ideas?
>

Leave them tiger:reviewed=no or fix them if there's some semblence of them
on the map if at all possible.


> (I mostly map in the Midwest)
>

All the more reason to keep them, as these often are quite long and greatly
assist in locating the correct destination or starting point for a trip.
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