[OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question

[Andy Robinson]

I label it motorway_link if it has motorway restrictions. That includes most
sliproads and service station slips as well as some other link roads.

For private/public best I think to stick to the "access" tagging

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk
>Sent: 19 July 2006 18:08
>To: Jon Stockill
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question
>
>On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:22:57PM +0100, Jon Stockill wrote:
>> Non-public access roads to things like motorway service stations
>> probably fit nicely into that one.
>>
>> How are you tagging slip roads? Should a Motorway slip road be tagged as
>> motorway, or the same as the road type that links to it?
>
>I think motorway slip-road is "motorway_link"?
>
>What is a slip-road onto something that is not motorway? Like a dual-
>carriageway
>or, more unusually in the UK, a single carriageway. I would have thought
>that
>highway = "sliproad" would have been better, and then reserve
>"motorway_link"
>for flyovers and such like that just go from one motorway to another?
>
>> >I also think there should be something that describes roads that are
>> >just for access - that don't really go anywhere but lead to a farm or
>> >industrial site, or go through a car park or something.  Not sure
>> >whether this is the same as a service road though.
>>
>> Driveway?
>
>I have been wondering about this; what is a surfaced road that is not
>public
>access? Unclassified seems to imply that it is public road (this is
>partially a
>problem with OS maps, the inability to tell if a road is public or not).
>
>How about highway=unclassified, private=yes? Otherwise, highway=private
>might be
>an option, but I think that is more restrictive for future tags.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Matthew
>
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