[Talk-us] guidelines regarding roads access

[Rihards]

On 2017.09.13. 16:13, Andrew Matheny wrote:
> 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.

if those roads/streets are indeed rather big, residential is a good tag.
if they are a bit smaller/windy, i'd go for "service" on all of them -
for example, the areas here :

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/30.40357/-97.70845&layers=N

> 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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