[OSM-talk] service roads as driveways

[Robin Paulson]

2008/8/26 Charlie Echo <openstreetmap at coutiere.com>:
> The best way to manage this would be to create generic tags with possibly slightly different meanings in different countries (we have different speed limits in different countries...) This has been managed with "primary / secondary / tertiary", which are not "state_managed / couty_managed / city_managed" but more generic.
>

the problem is, the highway code is the definitive document for each
country, and the likelihood of any of them coinciding 100% is
somewhere close to nil. which means we either have the situation we
have now (which is only going to get worse, as mappers/users from more
and more countries get actively involved), where there are endless
variations on the highway tag to account for every road type. or we
make compromises, which is going to provoke a lot of debate and take
ages to sort, and probably be far from ideal

>
> I think it may be a good idea to create a task-force with few leaders (3 ?), and 3 active contributors per COUNTRY (with at least one living in a big city, and another one in countryside), who would redefine the tags. As said, it's going to happen anyway some time.
> I also think that a common tags set for all countries just cannot be feasible.

i agree with all this; particularly the last paragraph

hand up here to volunteer for either