TIGER drew thousands of driveways that are often simply wrong. They
are tagged private and in my opinion spoil the map appearance with
little red squiggles all over the place. No other map I've found
includes them. Looking around the country, I notice some areas where
they were removed, changed to service roads, drawn de novo, and one
area (near Rosebud, OR) where they were inexplicably changed to
living_street, which they just aren't.
I've been deleting them if wildly wrong, and would like to delete
all I encounter. Any ideas?
Don't delete them, fix them. That's the OSM method. I find
driveways, when already entered, quite useful and helpful additional
data. Sometimes I'll enter them myself especially when they are long
and give access to what is otherwise inaccessible or if they allow
pedestrian easement to a trailhead or public land, (as they sometimes
do) as was mentioned earlier. This latter reason makes OSM superior
to many other maps for certain data consumers (e.g. hikers).
Driveways can also stand out as visually distinct access=private
parts of the road network that are "there" (on the ground, in real
life...) but "you can't use." This only SEEMS like it isn't useful,
but in some use cases, it is.
Let's be careful with wholesale deletion due to personal taste of
certain data categories. If it is truly wrong, fix it if possible.
Delete it as a last resort, only when it is correct to do so.
SteveA
California
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