[OSM-talk] How to tag small city alley ?

[Paul Johnson]

andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2009/5/26 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Ivan Garcia <capiscuas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Peter, which your approach, I believe that the render by osm will be the
>>> same than a normal residential street, what highway tag  can I use to
>>> differentiate this allewys in the rendered map?
>> This looks like a:
>>
>> highway=service
>> service=alley
>> access=no
>> foot=yes
>> bicycle=yes
>> motorcycle=yes
>>
>> Which will incidentally make it look different to residential ways in
>> mapnik & osmarender.
> 
> This *is* a residential way though.  It's not a service way and it's
> not what most people would think of when you say alley I think (?).
> It's residential way with specific access restrictions (and it's a
> little very_horrible).

There's several streets in Salem that are clearly alleyways, yet have
residental frontages on them.

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