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

[Ben Laenen]

On Thursday 28 May 2009, you wrote:
> Ben Laenen wrote:
> > It's clearly a public road so you shouldn't use highway=service
> > here.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway says about
> highway=service: "Generally for access to a building, motorway
> service station, beach, campsite, industrial estate, business park,
> etc.. This is also commonly used for access to parking and trash
> collection. Sometimes called an alley, particularly in the US."
>
> so highway=service has no meaning about public accessability. this is
> done using the access tag.
> highway=service just means this is a road that is not as wide as a
> highway=residential.

So give me the reference to "width" in that description.

All examples given there talk about a special road built to get you to 
some place or a building, and if you wouldn't need to go to that place 
or building you simply wouldn't go there (and most examples would be 
privately owned roads anyway). The street from the picture that started 
the discussion showed a road with probably quite a bit of 
through-traffic (motorcycles, mopeds, cyclists and pedestrians), and 
that's what I mean with the word "public" there. It handles traffic 
that doesn't have to be there. And that's the point where you can't use 
highway=service anymore.

Ben