Anthony <o...@inbox.org> writes: > Regarding the apartment complex, the parcel data is not out of date. > That's just the way apartment complexes are parceled here. There's > only one owner. Condominium associations would have a separate parcel > for shared areas, because there's more than one owner.
ok - that is entirely believable, and would make me tend to say driveway. > I found the appropriate definition in Florida's statutes: > > "(53) STREET OR HIGHWAY.-- > > (b) The entire width between the boundary lines of any privately > owned way or place used for vehicular travel by the owner and those > having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other > persons" so in your apartment case, there are maybe not really boundary lines in the legal sense, but WANAL (we are not a lawyer :-). Does that definition help you figure out if that apartment road is a STREEET OR HIGHWAY? If it is, do you think a 100m obviously residential driveway on a 5 acre lot with one house in an area zoned single family is a STREET OR HIGHWAY? (not at all obvious to me)! >> In mass, private ways look like public streets, and I have never seen a >> "no trespassing" sign on one. > > Do you have gated communities? We have them all over the place here > in Florida. I can get you some pictures if you want. I sort of > remember ones without gates but with "no trespassing" signs, but I > might have some difficulty finding examples of that to take pictures. occasionally we do, but they are not that common. I know what you mean; no need for pix. >> On a driveway (in a gated community, on a person's house), no >> trespassing signs are not at all odd. > > Are you saying that everything behind the gate in a gated community is > a driveway, or am I misreading that? No, I would say that whether their is a gate or a sign on a piece of pavement is not all that important in private way vs driveway. The OSM don't-worry-be-happy lesson is proably that as long as such marginal cases are tagged one or the other, 95% of the value of mapping them has been captured. I don't worry too much - just pick what seems right and move on. But the private way bit has long been an interest of mine.
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