In the Philippines we use designation <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation> to record the legal classification of public roads:
designation=national_road/provincial_road/municipal_road/etc.

This directly indicates ownership and financial responsibility. But maintenance might be delegated to another authority, e.g. national roads are maintained by the provincial engineering offices.

If responsibility areas of public works offices are identical to administrative boundaries then a combination of designation tagging and spatial queries could be used to locate the authority in charge.


On 2023-04-13 15:34, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging wrote:
Thanks Martin.

The operator tag seems to be concerned with different, but probably sometimes partially overlapping, information. It doesn't seem suited to capture the type of road authority.

Jens

On 13.04.2023 09:28, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

sent from a phone

On 13 Apr 2023, at 09:04, Jens Glad Balchen via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:

I couldn't find an official way to capture this information in OSM.
Is there one?

you could use the operator tag (although it doesn’t relate to ownership, it is about the entity in charge of maintenance, and there could be several different entities on a specific level, e.g. two entities in charge of national highways)


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