[OSM-talk] fences, trees and houses

[Cartinus]

On 11/21/2012 12:51 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Robin Paulson <robin at bumblepuppy.org> writes:
> 
>> i've done some quite detailed editing near where i live, i'd
>> appreciate anyone who is interested taking a look and responding.
>>
>> i'm not sure what to make of the result. for one, my partner, a
>> non-mapper, has told me she finds it very confusing, which potentially
>> raises questions
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.91503&lon=174.77973&zoom=16&layers=M
> 
> I think it's important to separate what should be in the database vs
> what should be rendered.
> 
> I find the rendering symbol for access=private ways to be unpleasing,
> because they have more visual weight than accessible ways.

I wouldn't have tagged the driveways with access=private unless there
was a sign that actually says so. Not because of any rendering issue,
but because I am lazy and it doesn't really add any information.

I would hope that any routing application would treat highway=service +
service=driveway as access=destination automagically. Otherwise how are
you going to get pedestrian door-to-door routing for "Inkerman Street
11/16".

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m.v.g.,
Cartinus