cracklinrain <cra_klinr...@gmx.de> writes: > German roads are built similar. But usually this is not dependent on > stuff like property. Usually land owners are forced to fit onto the > local prescriptions. So maybe a ditch is part of the property of a > private person, but part of the street. Barriers are already part of the > property.
It seems that if the rule is "the road authority can control what happens" that's an alternate functional definition of property ownership :-) > I would welcome landuse=highway from the view that there are tons of > mappers at Germany who map landuse-areas onto road-nodes - which is > totally unacceptable for me. > On the other hand I am against a landuse=road, because it will encourage > mappers to map highway=track surrounded by an area of landuse=road, > instead of mapping rivers and streams in the close neighbourhood. In the US (at least Massachusetts), this sounds almost always wrong, because there is a strong notion of a legal road vs someplace you may physically drive. A legal road might be dirt, and it will still be highway=unclassified surface=dirt or some such. A service road (driveway) or track (typically agricultural/etc.) will not have an associated segment of land, because it's just a physical feature of a larger parcel, rather than something that has a parcel for it. So I think it's fine to use landuse=highway for areas of land which are defined to encompass legal roads, but not to assume such areas surround tracks. Which means I oppose landuse=road for the same reasons you do: redundant and encouraging wrong mapping. All that said, I wouldn't (myself) add landuse=highway for most local roads, because it doesn't seem that useful compared to what else I could do. But for large-scale highways, I can see doing that. That said, it doesn't feel wrong and I can't object if that's what someone else is into mapping.
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