On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> > wrote: > > I map driveway when the house is set a distance from the main road, often > > time when the house can't be seen from the road. Mainly rural areas. I > > figure that it might help volunteer fire and rescue operations. > > > In many rural areas, such drives are now required to be Named Private > Ways with appropriate signage, for just such assistance. (County-wide > consolidated E-911 dispatch is driving this in e.g. Maine.) > Seems to vary quite a bit by area; I'm surprised to hear about Maine on that. Previously the only place I knew of with this practice was select neighborhoods in El Paso County, Colorado <http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1411335>. Mostly because I kept coming across named private ways that were named by people who were apparently resentful of the practice, with the topper being A Dog Will Lick His Butt But Won't Eat A Pickle Road <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/388029001>. The more common practice I've seen is to address number away from the nearest town and post the address number at the end of the driveway on a name sign blank. This can get fairly laughable in remote regions, I've seen house numbers approach 7 figures as a result.
_______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us