There were several threads in talk-us during July that discussed the problems of access=private on driveways: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2020-July/thread.html
- [Talk-us] access=private on driveways (was: Deleting tiger:reviewed=no/addr:street for routes) <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2020-July/020304.html> - [Talk-us] access=private on driveways <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2020-July/020323.html> Long story short, if access=private is "added by default", then there is no way to differentiate between "normal driveways" where uninvited guests might raise eyebrows due to social convention and actually-signed/gated driveways that explicitly prohibit access. If access=private is "added by default" and routers are forced to ignore it to reach the final destination, then there is no way for them to work out which routes might actually be allowed conditionally to access the destination when circumstances are appropriate (deliveries, political canvassing, invited guests, etc) and which ones truly are prohibited via signage, barriers, etc. On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:48 PM Tod Fitch <t...@fitchfamily.org> wrote: > Don’t recall if it was on talk-us or tagging, but yes there was a recent > discussion on this. > > If I recall correctly it seemed access=destination was preferred if you > were going to tag an access value. > > But since a significant number of driveways (nearly all?) are not > physically through roads there is little danger of a router directing you > on it unless your destination is on the driveway, so tagging an access=* > really isn’t needed most of the time. > > —Tod > > On Aug 16, 2020, at 8:33 PM, Skyler Hawthorne <o...@dead10ck.com> wrote: > > Was there a previous discussion about this that I can catch up on? > Driveways seem like access=private is appropriate across the board, not > just when there is explicit signage. If you drive onto someone's house's > driveway without permission, you are trespassing on their property. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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