[Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?
Minh Nguyen
minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
Mon Sep 28 18:51:08 UTC 2015
Nate Wessel <bike756 at ...> writes:
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> 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.
*Highfive!*
I'd only add that, while I've never found it a priority to map most
driveways, I do try to map every shared driveway I encounter. (I look for at
least two houses attached to the same driveway.) Shared driveways are the
rural/suburban functional equivalent to urban alleys, and some subdivisions
are chock full of them. I'd want routers to be able to direct their users a
bit beyond the mailbox in those cases. To me, shared driveways are less
tedious to map and more important for routing than aisles in parking lots.
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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
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