[OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

[Robin Paulson]

2008/8/25 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk>:
> I think that is the key here. The illogical use of 'unclassified' in the UK is
> what causes the problem. So 'service' was added as a designation for a small
> road that would probably be 'unclassified' in the rest of the world.
>
> We then add 'public' or 'private' relating to ACCESS, and I see little point
> adding yet another main 'designation' such as 'drive' unless there is a real
> difference in how these types of road need rendering.
>
> wiki is running incredibly slow at the moment, so I can't check some of the
> other fine detail, micro-mapping of private property such as drives, parking
> areas and property within an individuals boundaries should be 'ring-fenced'
> with tagging that allows this low level detail to be excluded as required?
> 4 minutes to get http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Highway page ...
> I'm almost tempted to suggest highway=private rather than highway=service,
> access=private, service=driveway. So I can see the reasoning behind tidying up
> some of this micro-mapping detail ... The 'service' attributes seem to
> contradict the actual definition of highway=service above
>
> And when did highway=services get added SURELY that is amenity=services ? If I
> am looking amenities I would NEVER look in the highway list!

agreed on all this

unfortunately, i think this is a side-effect of people adding to a tag
one bit at a time, with none considering the thing as a whole.

maybe we need someone or a coordinated group of someones to look at
this in detail and see how to fix them all together, now we've been
using the highway tag for some years, and most use cases have been
considered? it's going to happen sometime, all it needs is someone
brave to dive in...