I think of a driveway as typically leading to only one house, and would generally call the shared ones something else, probably "service roads". I'd make an exception for the access to a pair of houses e.g. semi-detached, or adjacent but linked by their garages/carports.
__John On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 2:26 PM Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > Sections of shared, non-public service road, are certainly a common > feature of modern housing developments. > > I have considered them to be private driveways. > > Private does not require a sign, walk down any suburban street in Europe > or North America and you will see hundreds of driveways, without signs or > gates and nobody will assume there is a public right of way there. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > On Tuesday, 5 November 2019, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > Personally, I would only call the short bits of tarmac that spur off that > > service road as 'driveways' because they each go to a single house. I'm > > sure that there are examples of shared driveways in the UK but I would > > consider them rare. > > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 1:52 PM Dave F via Tagging < > tagging@openstreetmap.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > In the UK, Amazon Logistics are adding useful data from their GPS'd > > > delivery vehicles. Mainly highway=service as the last part of their > > > journey to a destination. > > > > > > However, one of their contributors removed service=driveway from a > > > highway=service road. In the changeset comments they said it was > because > > > it served multiple residential properties. > > > > > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/76576604#map=19/51.33398/-2.27945 > > > > > > From memory, it wasn't signed as private, but it appears to be > > > unadopted by the local authority (There are no raised kerbed pavements, > > > drainage or lighting). I'm assuming it's shared ownership. > > > > > > For indicative purposes only. (The image is ten years old): > > > > > > > https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3343975,-2.278377,3a,60y,185.39h,67.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5I6ruGYQsgQv4cC0iLM6SA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 > > > > > > Personally I see no problem tagging this as a driveway even if it's > shared. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > DaveF > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Tagging mailing list > > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > > > > -- > Sent from my Sailfish device > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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