On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Simon Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This road is clearly NOT part of the public residential road network. >> This access road network is owned and maintained by the housing >> cooperative. > > Who said highway=residential has to be part of a public road network? > How about: highway=residential; access=private? No one so far... I would tag a back alley with highway:service with a sub-tag of service:alley. This would be part of the road network maintained by the city. There's no distinction made between this highway:service as a public roadway versus the aforementioned highway:service as a private driveway, except for the sub-tag. There's no distinction made concerning the ownership. I don't know if I would agree with tagging the roadway as access:private, as the road network is accessible by the general public. There are no access restrictions. The reason for tagging the roadway as something other than highway:residential is to have it depicted on the map as something other than a residential street. One should not expect to be able to turn off of the residential street network, and into a complex such as this, and continue driving in the same manner. The road network in the housing complex is much narrower, and not designed for the higher speeds that the residential network is designed for. The whole reason that we tag highway:motorway on a main highway is so that it gets rendered differently than a highway:residential street. By looking at the physical attributes of the line drawn on the map, one can make assumptions about what the roadway will look like in the real world. So why would we tag a roadway that is very much physically different from a residential street with a tag that does not describe it properly? We have tags that describe the physical properties of the roadway, let's use them. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
