Ah, I thought of an exception: a service=alley is (usually, around here, in California) a public way, but it IS more "service-" oriented, like maybe it only gets used for rare, backyard-access by owners (which would be exclusively private use), but maybe it DOES get used for trash collection (which would be a public use).
Sometimes we need to type these things out loud to "riff through the possibilities." Hey, they don't call these "talk lists" (well, mail-lists, too) for nothing. > On Oct 1, 2022, at 3:25 AM, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > > Makes sense to me, too, Greg. I don't know if it helps or hinders wider > understanding, but I understand what Greg is saying here, and while his > perspective is "Eastern USA" (and mine is "Western USA"), these don't seem > far apart or even different at all, and there may likely be a further > possible refinement here: > > "unclassified" roads, as a "real legal roads" are "in public," and subject to > traffic rules/laws/ordinances, and > > "service" roads, as "private driveways, parking lot aisles and other roads > not in the public grid of road network" are "on private property" and not > (as) subject to traffic rules/laws/ordinances. > > That's admittedly rough, but it does add something that I believe is true > here. Maybe it helps, maybe not. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
