[Talk-us] Should driveways be on OSM?

[Eric Ladner]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:37 PM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Alabama seems to have a lot of driveways. I couldn't find one shorter than
50m so that may have been the cutoff. In a population area that's pretty
dense and the driveways are frequent and well defined, they don't add a lot
of value.

I agree with other respondents that long country driveways are worth
keeping if tagged correctly (highway=service / service=driveway).
Especially when the house sits way back from the road and the way to get to
the house may not be obvious.
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