Lester Caine wrote: >Sent: 07 November 2008 11:47 AM >To: OSM Talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] UK Industrial Estate Roads > >David Earl wrote: >> On 07/11/2008 11:31, Christoph Boehme wrote: >>> Joshua Scotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I added some streets recently on an industrial estate and tagged them >>>> highway=road as I'm not sure what other tag to use. >>>> They are roads on a uk industrial estate with the normal white lines >>>> in the middle of the road. >>> I usually tag these roads as highway=unclassified. >> >> Only if they are public, surely. > >highway=service seems the best choice for areas that are purely >'industrial' >with an added access=private for roads within security areas. >unclassified is certainly out of place where the purpose of the road is >known, >but perhaps THAT is what needs to be defined as a tagging guideline?
A point of note here for the UK. Whether a road is actually private or not is not always clear. The import is whether the road has been adopted or not by the local authority. Some industrial areas stick gates across the road to improve security but that doesn't necessarily mean the road is private. You will quite often find that if there is a public sewer running along the road then the road will have been adopted. The other point is about permissive access. During the working day, most estates permit access for trade. Some have a security station on them which further complicates matters. Ultimately, I tag a road as unadopted=true if the road is signed as being unadopted, otherwise I leave the status blank unless I really am sure it's a privately owned road, in which case I add the private=true. This same situation also holds true for some residential roads. If a road has a gate and a button alongside that opens the gate (no restriction) then chances are that its perhaps not a private road. Cheers Andy > >-- >Lester Caine - G8HFL >----------------------------- >Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact >L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk >EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ >Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// >Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >talk@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.0/1772 - Release Date: 06/11/2008 >8:23 PM _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk