[Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

[Mike Thompson]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Tom Bloom <tombloom99 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> TIGER drew thousands of driveways that are often simply wrong.
>
I believe TIGER only includes driveways over a certain length.

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


> No other map I've found includes them.
>
Driveways can be useful for at least two reasons.  One, their junction with
the public road serve as navigational aids, particularly in very rural
areas.  Two, they indicate how to access a residence, such as when
responding to an emergency or making a delivery (they were included in
TIGER to aid census workers accessing residences). In some cases,
particularly when the residence is set far back from the road, the best
method of access may not be obvious from the address alone.


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> I've been deleting them if wildly wrong,
>
I don't oppose this.


> and would like to delete all I encounter.
>
I do oppose this, particularly if a mapper (not the original import) has
touched the way.
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