Unclassified, by definition, is a road on the traffic grid suitable for motorised vehicles. It is not necessarily paved. Access restrictions may apply, and usage may change in time, e.g the road still connects, but is legally closed for cars except emergency vehicles and people who live along the road. Or, a new railway intersects the road and no crossing is provided. In those cases, usually the road is still seen as an unclassified road.
Peter Elderson > Op 30 sep. 2022 om 17:48 heeft grin via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> > het volgende geschreven: > > Hello, > > To open it for a larger audience please let me share my question from the osm > wiki: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:highway%3Dservice#service_vs._unclassified,_conflicting_definitions > > Quoting: > > - - - - - > > service vs. unclassified, conflicting definitions > > There are some discrepancies between this page and highway=unclassified, and > the wording leaves a lot to interpretation and opinions. > > This page suggests that service is a road which ends on some feature with no > through traffic (leading to a building, a parking place, etc). Is is also > specifically exclude frontage roads as an example to tag according to > function and not purpose. By following this definition a road with > throughfaring traffic (where both end is open, connecting to other roads or > tracks) cannot be service, so it should be unclassified. > > However unclassified declares itself as "considered usable by motorcars" and > also "In rural contexts, narrow paved roads with only private access for > motorcars (maybe public access for agricultural motor-vehicles, cyclists and > pedestrians) should be tagged as highway=service and motorcar=private (maybe > motor_vehicle=agricultural)", suggesting that unclassified requires to be > motorcar=yes and suggests that "narrow paved roads with motorcar=private" > should be tagged as service. > > These definitions quite contradict one another. > > Take a pretty common road type in Europe, which goes on the embankment of a > river, which generally paved, narrow, legally open for walking and bicycling > people, often part of the national/international bicycle-road network, and > closed for motorcar traffic (usually only waterworks' cars are allowed). > What's that? Cannot be "unclassified" since motorcars aren't allowed, cannot > be service since it doesn't "leading to something". Some people tag it this > way, some that way. That's not good. > > Either service should mean "one level below unclassified" and soften the > wording even more ("generally" to "in many cases", for example), or > unclassified shall drop requirement for motorcars and suggesting service for > "narrow paved roads w/ private motorcar access". I'd support the latter: I > would rather use unclassified here, but that's an opinion. > > Your inputs are welcome. > > - - - - - > > Here, as well as there. > > Thank you, > g > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
