On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > Anthony <o...@inbox.org> writes: >> But I've come across situations where the unnamed road is not a >> roundabout, though. In one of these cases I used >> highway=unclassified, because it was just a dirt road that was really >> just a shared driveway (it was imported from TIGER because it used to >> be a real road). > > here, the question is the road's legal status. If it's a private or > public way going to houses, it would be highway=residential. If it's > really a driveway legally now, highway=service service=driveway, or > highway=track if it's really atrocious. MassGIS data has a lot of > driveways showing up as ways that got mapped to residential, and I've > been fixing them in my town.
What's the legal distinction between a "private way going to houses" and a "shared driveway"? The road in question is definitely private - if the shared owners want to put up a gate and restrict access to the way, they have every right to do so. So I'd say it's *both* a "private way going to houses" *and* a "shared driveway". Another situation which I run into more often is the case of a private road owned by a condominium association (or mobile home park), or by an apartment complex. Should these be tagged as something other than highway=residential? I've always reserved highway=service for non-residential roads. I now see on the wiki that highway=service can also be used with service=driveway, but what's the distinction between a driveway and a private road owned by a condominium association or an apartment complex? One distinction is whether or not the way is shared, but then a shared driveway is shared as well. Cross-posting to talk-us, this might be a US-specific issue. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
