[Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

[Toby Murray]

I run into this as well. If I don't see anything close to the way on
imagery I definitely have very little problem deleting them.

I also question the access=private tagging although not because of the
rendering. I mean technically it is correct I suppose but if you are
trying to route to an address at the end of a long driveway, the
router should tell you to go down the driveway. Tagging it as
access=private would probably prevent that from happening in most
routers. I would say access=destination might be more accurate however
really I think data consumers should know what highway=service and
service=driveway together mean and appropriately handle it without an
explicit access tag.

Toby

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. They are
> tagged private and in my opinion spoil the map appearance with little red
> squiggles all over the place. 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.
>
> I've been deleting them if wildly wrong, and would like to delete all I
> encounter. Any ideas?
>
> (I mostly map in the Midwest)
>
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