[Talk-us] guidelines regarding roads access

[Greg Morgan]

On Sep 24, 2017 8:33 AM, "Greg Troxel" <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:


Adam Franco <adamfranco at gmail.com> writes:

> One additional note is that at least in my area, the TIGER import
> incorrectly added access=private to many driveways and privately
maintained
> residential roads. Upon surveying these I've found that they are signed
> "Private" or "PVT" on the street-name sign to indicate
> private-maintenance/ownership (don't complain to the town about a lack of
> snow-plowing/grading), but do not in reality have an access restriction.


https://www.mapillary.com/app/?focus=photo&pKey=oyEdoFPUg3yayTv1deHZUQ&lat=33.567826&lng=-112.016051&z=17

I initially marked a street like this as access=private.  Then I found out
that this definition of private is more like Adam's experience. However, I
did not experience the issue with the TIGER import. I am not sure that an
HOA is a good thing.  I stay away from them for a number of reasons
including the leftovers of the subprime rate debacle.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/09/14/phoenix-area-homeowners-associations-foreclosing-record-number-homeowners/595816001/


For a "private way" (legal term in my state for what I think you refer
to as "privately maintained residential road"), I agree that there
shouldn't be access=private.

For a driveway to someone's house, access=private seems right, in that
it's generally at least impolite to use that road other than as
visitor/delivery/etc.

...

But, that tends to lead to pink blobs in rendering, and I'm not sure
that's the right thing, as service roads having the status "you should
use these only when dealing with the adjacent entities" seems to be the
default/normal case.  We should adjust rendering, not access, to make
this pleasing.


The rendering has been changed to a gray dashed center line.

Regards,
Greg
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