On Sunday 24 August 2008 02:41:29 Christoph Eckert wrote: > Hi, > > > i've been using service roads for a variety of small, relatively > > insignificant roads, such as alleyways between buildings, driveways to > > stately homes, roads around school/university/hospital campuses and so > > on, but something else recently has made me wonder whether to use it > > more: in auckland, there are thousands of houses with very long > > driveways, sometimes 300m. is this an acceptable use for the tag? > > IMO: yes, perfect usage.
Are you sure? I used to think so too, but lately I have reconsidered. One way to look at highway=service is that it should be used for roads that we wouldn't really miss if they weren't rendered at all. Good examples can be found above: roads between buildings, short drives to or on parking lots, roads to fuel stations, etc. Long driveways to houses *would* probably be missed, at least I would miss them. So I would myself instead use highway=unclassified, possibly with surface=unpaved if that is the case. -Inge > Best regards, > > ce > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk