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Sadly these maps still have our driveway as a "road." Years ago I heard that Apple was going to use OSM data for their map app. I contacted OSM to remove our d
by maire 7y ago
Sadly these maps still have our driveway as a "road."
Years ago I heard that Apple was going to use OSM data for their map app. I contacted OSM to remove our driveway. They did demote our driveway to a "private road" (the best I could do). Luckily, our driveway is not in the Apple maps app. I am still somewhat irritated particularly when I see our driveway in apps like this.
- pwg 7y agoYou could sign up for an OSM account (it is free) and edit your driveway so it is no longer a 'road' but is instead labeled as a driveway. Hopefully you'll make a few more corrections as well, but even if this is the only edit you make, it is a contribution to the whole.
- ghaff 7y agoFWIW, OSM lists both my and my neighbors' long driveways as "service roads." (Which isn't an obviously incorrect classification although the actual mapping doesn't seem wholly accurate.)
- rmc 7y agoThe proper way to map a private driveway in OSM is `highway=service,service=driveway,access=private`. I can see why you, or a simplistic data consumer, would class that as “service road”
- ghaff 7y agoSo, as I read it above and in the Wiki, I gather that driveway is a subset of service road? (Actually, in my specific case, it's a little more complicated in that the access to a couple houses and a couple outbuildings are interconnected so it should probably be tagged 'driveway=pipestem' as well.)
- maxerickson 7y agoRefinement is probably a better word than subset, because it depends on how the data gets used; if someone makes a map that interprets all highway=service the same way, driveways will look just like all the rest. If they interpret service=driveway in addition to highway=service, then they will look different.
- mytdi 7y agoI am an OSM contributor and could try to fix it for you, if you give me the location. My email address is in my profile.
- maire 7y agoThank you for your kind offer to fix my driveway. I just sent you an email.
- lucb1e 7y agoThat's a bit like complaining your front door is still green. If you don't like what the person before you did, you're in charge of changing it. Power to you ;)
- maxerickson 7y agoIt was probably initially added as part of an import of US Census data (TIGER). TIGER doesn't have all that much differentiation for minor roads, and the import didn't do anything other than a direct mapping of TIGER classes to specific sets of tags. For unnamed residential streets, it probably should have considered things like length and connectivity to downgrade a bunch of streets/roads.