[OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

[Inge Wallin]

On Sunday 24 August 2008 02:41:29 Christoph Eckert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > i've been using service roads for a variety of small, relatively
> > insignificant roads, such as alleyways between buildings, driveways to
> > stately homes, roads around school/university/hospital campuses and so
> > on, but something else recently has made me wonder whether to use it
> > more: in auckland, there are thousands of houses with very long
> > driveways, sometimes 300m. is this an acceptable use for the tag?
>
> IMO: yes, perfect usage.

Are you sure?  

I used to think so too, but lately I have reconsidered.  

One way to look at highway=service is that it should be used for roads that we 
wouldn't really miss if they weren't rendered at all.  Good examples can be 
found above: roads between buildings, short drives to or on parking lots, 
roads to fuel stations, etc.

Long driveways to houses *would* probably be missed, at least I would miss 
them. So I would myself instead use highway=unclassified, possibly with 
surface=unpaved if that is the case.

	-Inge


> Best regards,
>
> ce
>
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