[Talk-us] guidelines regarding roads access

[Greg Troxel]

"Ionut Radu - (p)" <ionutr2 at telenav.com> writes:

> For us it's a little bit confusing if we should map those areas with
> service, residential roads or even living streets and if there are
> some gates at the entrance if we should tag them with restrictive
> access.  So, if you know some rules or guidelines regarding those
> particular cases, please give us a feedback.

I would not use living_street unless there really is a legal notion that
matches it.

If there's a gate, and you have to have a code to get through, or if
there is a no trespassing sign, then I would mark it access=private.

It follows from access=yes/permissive that a router can send you there
and it is expected to work.  It follows from access=destination that a
router can send you there if your destination is there and that is
expected to work.  None of that is true with an unmanned code gate.

To find out, take a test drive and see how it goes (not really kidding).

If there's no right of access, but people act as if there is, I would
use access=permissive.


As far as residential vs service (ignoring unclassified/residential), in
Massachusetts I tend to do:

  public way (essentially always named) => residential
  private way  (essentially always named)=> residential

  shared driveway to 3 houses (essentially never named) => service, driveway

The big dividing line is whether the way is laid out as a lot in the
parcels map.  But this is not entirely reliable as there may be named
roads within a condo complex that are not legally separate parcels but
you would have no idea of that from being there.

The other thing is that driveways are usually either too narrow to be
real roads, or very clearly to get you from a main road to a parking lot.

So I would say that roads in gated communities that feel like roads, in
width, usage, and going by many houses, should get highway=residential,
even if not named.

You should also walk around and talk to locals and see what they think
:-)  But most non-mapping locals would think this is an odd question.


Are you armchair mapping, or actually there?
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