[Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

[Natfoot]

I always add driveways to the map when there is more than one house or
building on said driveway.

Regards,

Nathan P
email: natfoot at gmail.com

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Nate Wessel <bike756 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I delete plenty of TIGER driveways myself (mostly in the midwest,
> *highfive*!), but I wouldn't say that the accurate ones should be removed.
> If they can be identified as private driveways, they could more easily just
> not be rendered on a map with no loss of accurate data for people who might
> find that sort of thing useful. My general approach has been to leave the
> truly accurate ones untouched, but to delete anything who's deletion leaves
> the map more accurate. I just don't feel inclined to redraw them.
>
> I should specify, this is my (personal) policy only for untouched TIGER
> imports.
>
> Cheers,
> Nate
>
>
> On 09/28/2015 01:33 AM, Tom Bloom 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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