Then you could tag them: highway=service foot=yes (implying not suitable for vehicles) Mario
Matt Williams wrote: > 2009/8/28 Chris Hill <chillly...@yahoo.co.uk>: > >> In many towns and cities in the UK there are small ways behind rows of >> houses. In my part of the world (Yorkshire) we know them as a tenfoot >> (they are traditionally 10 feet wide). >> >> I have not mapped many - they often seem private to the houses, but >> today I did follow a couple. I wonder how everyone else would tag >> them. I have tentatively tagged them as highway=alley (not yet in the >> map features) since this feels a bit more international than tenfoot. I >> could use highway=service, I suppose they are service roads, but they >> feel a bit different from a service road leading to a fuel station or >> supermarket, particularly narrower and with very sharp corners around >> buildings. >> > > Recently there's been a lot more use of > > highway=service > service=<something> > > where <something> is driveway or parking aisle etc. Looking at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:service it seems there's a > mention there of service=alley. I guess it could be useful for these. > In my experience these are often used by the binman and friends since > they offer easier access but are not supposed to be used by normal > cars. > > This should differentiate these 'serviceway alleys' from the smaller 5 > foot (or so) alleyways that you can also get behind houses. I've been > tagging those as highway=footway thus far. > > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
