Here in Victoria (and I have seen there elsewhere), we have streets which are public in the sense that there is no gate, but are actually maintained by a private entity. About half of these are named, with the statement "private road" underneath them on the streetsign. The other large group are access to housing complexes and are usually not named.
The former kind can seen on de Sousa Lane and the latter on the 4383 Torquay Drive in the following map: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.483871&lon=-123.324475&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF For the named type, I have been tagging them highway=residential (I have yet to find a road that should be any other designation) with private=yes. For the latter I either tag them service or residential with the private=yes tag. The challenge is that there is the access=private tag, which doesn't really fit, as it implies you need owner permission, which for these types of streets you don't really need. Anyway, a long rambling email at 1am. Any thoughts? Corey _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
