I think highway=service could be public or private, just a matter of if it is "used to access a certain building / facility" like Martin said. Some public examples could be road to a public parking lot, driveway in/out of fire station, road leading to a public works facility.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Kevin Broderick <k...@kevinbroderick.com> wrote: > Highway=service implies a private road, though; if a public road dead-ends > at a single building or facility, it should be =residential or > =unclassified, right? > > The tracktype= key is also not really applicable to many of the > unmaintained roads around here, at least as described on the wiki. The > description implies that a track is a continuum from a maintained roadway > to a virtually invisible path across a field. The unmaintained roads in > this part of the country are usually old roadways that were established > before modern engineering standards; many of them go up and down the fall > line and have waterbars, washouts, rock ledges, or all of the above. For > example: > > > https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t31.0-8/1267970_716253801218_1989759584_o.jpg > > https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/1266483_716253736348_406630391_o.jpg > > https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t31.0-8/1264969_716254075668_897288595_o.jpg > > https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10317804_767096626788_7562385056086790114_o.jpg > > All of these photos are unmaintained roads in Vermont. The last one is > probably reasonable for a high-clearance, AWD car (e.g. Subaru) in the > hands of a competent driver, and definitely should be passable by a skilled > driver in a 4x4 pickup or Jeep. The other three would probably require a > modified 4x4 and the right skillset. They are also legal right-of-ways, so > clearly access=yes for all vehicle types (even though I wouldn't want to > get routed down one of those unknowingly). > > I've been using the smoothness key to provide additional data on such > tracks, which I realize is a universally agreed solution, but it's the best > one I've found to date; I'd be open to further suggestions. > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 2014-07-03 17:36 GMT+02:00 Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com>: >> >> Just trying to process this: wouldn't a tracktype 1 be tagged as >>> unclassified or residential anyway? Or to ask a different way, assuming >>> that roads with houses should be tagged as residential, when should one tag >>> a sub-tertiary road as track vs. using unclassified? >>> >> >> >> You'd always tag it as unclassified, unless it is not a connection road >> and is used only for agricultural / forestry purposes. If it is not a >> connection road but used to access a certain building / facility, use >> service. >> >> E.g. this is clearly a track: http://binged.it/1odgrTZ >> or this: http://binged.it/1j0zEud >> >> in case of doubt I'd put unclassified ;-) >> >> cheers, >> Martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > > > -- > Kevin Broderick > k...@kevinbroderick.com > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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