In Brazil the operator= tag is used for who is responsible for maintenance of a certain highway, In Brazil we have mainly 3 levels of administration indicating who is responsible for financing, who owns the property under the highway, etc (these 3 levels are federal, state, and municipal highways), legally there can exist private highways, though these would most likely be access roads to certain industrial areas (I think there are negotiations whether the access highway to Porto de Açu (Açu Superport) will be private (EBX Group) or state (Rio de Janeiro state), but this is an exceptional case). Many state and federal highways have been contracted to private companies for improving road quality and to do maintenance. Such contracts can be for the entire length of a highway or for a specific part, the federal highways in the state Rio Grande do Sul is maybe the most extreme cases, where the same highway might have up to 5 different operator contracts, each a shorter section, or it can be as in Espírito Santo state where the federal BR-101 highway have been granted in one single contract of 25 years through the entire state.
In Brazil, the operator= tag have also been used where the proper government organisations are responsible for maintenance, such as operator=DER-MG (or can also be noted as operator=DER/MG). In the case of concessions (private maintenance), the tag can be operator=ECO-101, operator=“Autopista Fluminense”, etc. In other words, if EBX group will be financing the access road to Açu, the tag can be operator=EBX (or the name of the daughter company), but they might also outsource the maintenance, like what was announced a few months ago regarding the operation of Açu Port, where it was announced that LLX (the EBX company for logistics) will not be operating the port after all. In theory a property tag can be used to denote the owner of the highway, though I think this in many cases are covered in a network tag (in Brazil we use a scheme of network tags for denoting federal, state and municipal highways), which could be extended for private highways, though I feel the tag name probably will be wrong, a private highway will most likely not form part of a larger network, and most likely be of a limited extension. I am not sure how this translates to other countries though Aun Johnsen On Sep 7, 2014, at 9:00, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 12:24:50 +0100 > From: Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> > To: "osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org" <talk@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging of private roads > Message-ID: > <cabixoekbebtzeumv86tnztbw2o6i2spqtylqhacagbfiaj_...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 7 September 2014 11:45, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Generally we don't tag ownership but only access rights > > What about operator= ? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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