Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net> writes: > With regard to apartment complexes, condo complexes, mobile home complexes, > and gated single-family-home complexes, I usually tag: > > - The ways that cross the boundary line from public street into the complex > are highway=service*** + service=driveway. These are also role=access in > the relation. > - Other roads completely internal to the complex are highway=service*** > - If it is a gated community and/or there is a legal no-trespassing > posting, additionally tag all roads and other features within the posted > area as access=private. > > *** I have sometimes used highway=residential instead of highway=service > when the roads are named, have actual postal addresses along them, and > clearly up to public road standards (width, surface, maintenance, etc.). > This would apply to some condo and most gated single-family-home complexes. > > I rarely draw driveways into businesses or, even more rarely, single-family > home lots. If I do, they are highway=service + service=driveway, with > access=private if gated or posted no-trespassing.
This is an excellent description of more or less what I was trying to say (but didn't so well), and I think it would be a good addition to formal tagging guidelines.
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