[OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads

[Lester Caine]

David Earl wrote:
> On 07/11/2008 11:31, Christoph Boehme wrote:
>> Joshua Scotton <josh at JoshuaScotton.com> wrote:
>>> I added some streets recently on an industrial estate and tagged them
>>> highway=road as I'm not sure what other tag to use.
>>> They are roads on a uk industrial estate with the normal white lines
>>> in the middle of the road.
>> I usually tag these roads as highway=unclassified.
> 
> Only if they are public, surely.

highway=service seems the best choice for areas that are purely 'industrial' 
with an added access=private for roads within security areas.
unclassified is certainly out of place where the purpose of the road is known, 
but perhaps THAT is what needs to be defined as a tagging guideline?

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