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After I finally tagged all the paved roads I know of in Telfair and Wheeler counties, I discover a marvelous tag call surface. This removes my reluctance to classify county maintained dirt roads as tertiary. I found a Georgia DOT map for Wheeler County road use of the same type as FK270673 linked for Telfair.
I also cleaned up an error I made in drawing Jim Hammock Dr in McRae. This is a new paved road to a prison. The road is owned by either the city or the county and is worked up like a secondary road. However, it dead ends at a prison, It's not properly a service road, neither is it residential. Unclassified, perhaps? I labeled it tertiary for the time being. I really need to read the highway tag discussions.
Have tried my hand at drawing in JOSM, Interesting. Not difficult at all, though the maze of roads at Cravey Estates subdivision, my first attempt, was a bit difficult for a newbie to sort out. Instead, I extended a road on the southern end of Wheeler and drew in a private access track. No question about road type on this one.
Discussion
Comment from 42429 on 23 January 2011 at 23:42
The highway tag for access roads depends on object importance:
- service for a single farm or single house or single shop
- unclassified for a bigger factory, entertainment park, hospital, mall, prison, school or small military base
- tertiary for a very big industrial complex or a university or a very big military base or a very big mall
There is no official guideline that distinguishes between big and small objects, but a tagging practice that looks good on the map. Tertiary roads are usually identified by their official route numbers (e.g. ref=CR 12 or ref=CR 179). The prefix (C, CH, CR or CTH) is depending on local usage.
County routes are usually a very disputed issue:
osm.wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#County_Highways
It is usual to tag county roads as tertiary as long as they have a reference number, e.g. CR 12. However, there are also good reasons to tag dirt country roads as unclassified if you have local knowledge about road condition.
We also collect a lot of other information like churches, parking lots, railroad crossings, restaurants, supermarkets, traffic signals and turning circles. Unfortunately, not every amenity is available in each editor, but JOSM offers many options. Feel free to ask whenever you find some missing or outdated features in the map.
Comment from Sundance on 25 January 2011 at 17:40
In this case I might label it as...
highway=service
service=driveway
Other service tags; parking_aisle, alley
Comment from Anna_AG on 25 January 2011 at 23:48
I Added a button on the tool bar of my josm app with exactly this tag
(
highway=service
service=driveway
source=Bing
)
I have save loads of time - wave a look here to add the Oneclick buttons to JOSM - they are very useful if you are tagging a lot of roads
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/TaggingPresets
bri
Comment from Boondoggle on 26 January 2011 at 01:51
Unfortunately, this isn't a driveway. It's like a public highway running through an industrial park. In theory, businesses could locate along the road.