[Talk-us] access=private on driveways (was: Deleting tiger:reviewed=no/addr:street for routes)

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 13/07/2020 15.16, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> I'll confess to having perpetrated a fair number - at a time when I
> didn't know better.

Likewise. That said...

> A few things, though:
> 
> The immediate curtilage of a house is presumed to be private; at least
> in the US, one does not drive or walk directly up to someone's house
> without having business there. (Someone making a delivery, obviously,
> has business there.)

...this seems to be the definition of access=destination? Is that the 
recommended way to tag residential driveways?

> I haven't had any trouble getting OSMand to navigate to a house on a
> road marked `access=private`. It pops up a warning that my destination
> is on a private road, and asks whether it's OK to route over it - and
> then does so happily.

My car does this, and doesn't even ask. It just warns me that "this 
route uses private roads". I generally assume that's talking about the 
final leg and ignore it.

> I'm perfectly willing to believe that overzealous application of 
> 'private' breaks _some_ routing engines, but 'breaks routing for 
> everyone' is a bit hyperbolic.

Yup. That said, it does seem like access=destination is more correct for 
ways that aren't explicitly access-restricted?

-- 
Matthew