[Talk-us] guidelines regarding roads access

[Andrew Matheny]

I agree with everything Greg has said.

In the US, whether you tag a highway residential or service should
generally be determined by its function, not its access.

In the case of a gated community of single family homes, the named streets
serve the same function as named streets in other non-gated single family
neighborhoods. Hence I would tag those highway=residential and then
access=private. Then service for any driveways or alleys.

In the cases of other residential uses it would depend on the context.

For townhome or other single-family attached dwellings with named roads
that resemble detached single-family neighborhoods, I'd still tag as
residential.

On Trailer parks, I could be convinced to go with either residential or
service depending on the trailer park. Some are built like high density
single family neighborhoods and have named streets, in which case I would
use a residential tag. When I've seen some (usually smaller) trailer parks
where the highways resemble driveways more than they do streets, I've given
those service tags.

I could also go either way on multi-family developments (like garden-style
apartment complexes), but usually I go with highway=service because they
function more like the interior roads of a shopping center or business park
even though they are technically residential uses. Access tags are added
when appropriate.

-Andrew
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