> On Jul 12, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What you are trying to map is a landuse rather than the highways service?
Imagine you live on a farm and you’ve never seen a a big city's alley - how
would you explain why there is a narrow road next to the main road? the main
road is “too busy?” do they really need to make the road so narrow it is not
useful for much else than local access?
In the city and suburban areas, we recognize that there is a road below
residental/unclassified, but is not a track. We call it an Alley, and define it
through highway=service & service=alley. Alleys would then connect to
driveways, tracks, and other more local access roads.
In my extensive driving experience in rural California, OSM’s definition of
rural roads works very well. There are no rural alleys. There are service roads
for individual facilities, but not in the public/narrow/parallel “alley”
sense.
But when mapping Rural Japan, IMO, there *is* a road grade between
unclassified/residential and Track. It is not too difficult to see them when
you live here, but it is difficult to explain. The guy mapping Korea chimed in
that it is similar there. The road network in rural ares is *as dense and
complicated* as the city to facilitate access to farm field sections or other
rural land-uses. The sections are further subdivided by tracks/paths/driveways,
like a city. I bet in other very rural, old, and high population density
countries (in Asia), this is the case too, if they have money to maintain all
of these paved roads.
And using track+grade1 on them seems wrong.
So I would like to formalize a rural sibling for alley. I called it
service=rural, becuase it’s counterpart is found in cities and suburbs.
Javbw
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