OSMAND has recently had some very positive comments about walking on an unrelated (to OSM) forum I use. It also doesn't appear to render on the basis of whether there is a service=driveway tag at the moment. In the field, as a walker, given you can download the maps, it is what I would consider suggesting someone try if they asked me rather than the main OSM website.
I've had the debate about the use of track/service some time ago. I go the impression that highway=track was initially used based on the surface rather than the "function". I now try and tag on the basis of what I think is the function. So if it is the highway to an isolated residence or residences (farmyards that have been sold off for housing are quite often multiple residences) or a farmyard (which will include a residence) I would use highway=service and service=driveway. I would add a surface tag for the surface. I might even add a tracktype tag as in reality this is just another descriptor for a surface. If the highway is to farm buildings only (you get isolated barn/s in fields) or into fields I would use highway=track. One advantage of having service=driveway rendered differently on the main OSM website is that you can use it to QC your use of this tag! Dudley ________________________________ From: ael via Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Sent: 13 December 2020 11:41 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] driveway-becomes-track On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 09:11:32PM +0000, Martin Wynne wrote: > On 12/12/2020 17:37, Andy Townsend wrote: > > > What I'm wondering is how the typical recreational country walker would find > that map, or get it on their mobile phone app in place of the awful Google > maps? It's a lot of work to create if no-one ever uses it? Just to mention that I use navit on my satnavs, and that has a good "POI" feature which would show benches in the vicinity. I understand that there is a Android version, so presumably it works on those types of smartphone. https://github.com/navit-gps & https://www.navit-project.org/ etc. ael _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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