Openstreetmap-carto: highway=service + living_street=yes paint over as highway=living_street

Created on 15 Nov 2018  Â·  26Comments  Â·  Source: gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto

Expected behavior

highway=service + living_street=yes paint over as highway=living_street

Added: change only the color, but not the width

Actual behavior

highway=service + living_street=yes paint over as highway=residential

Links and screenshots illustrating the problem

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/living_street=yes#combinations

declined roads

Most helpful comment

From wiki edits it seems that living_street=yes is at best disputed by some. Is anybody planning to start discussion about this tag on OSM wiki or tagging mailing list?

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Thanks for reporting. Could you show the location (link) where the problem is visible and possibly post an image showing it?

I would think that highway=living_street or highway=service alone would be
the correct tagging?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice says
highway=service is for streets or roads that access one property or
building, and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:service does no
mention service=living_street
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I have never heard of that. Looks like it was proposed long time ago and this proposition is described here:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:living_street%3Dyes

However it is being really used since then:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:living_street

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I think this should be discussed in Tagging ML.
Indeed this small driveway would look nicer in gray:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/464614013

I would "allow" it only for lower class (than living street) highways like service.

Am Fr., 16. Nov. 2018 um 12:50 Uhr schrieb Holger Jeromin <
[email protected]>:

I think this should be discussed in Tagging ML.
Indeed this small driveway would look nicer in gray:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/464614013

I would "allow" it only for lower class (than living street) highways like
service.

from a German point of view, a living street is a public road, while a
driveway is not, so it doesn't seem to make sense to put a living street
property on a private driveway. I agree that the rendering of living
streets is not the most beautiful possible solution, but extending the
living street on private ways doesn't seem correct either.

Indeed this small driveway would look nicer in gray

Why would we determine the colour of a driveway depending on the adjacent road?

I will add that I propose to change only the color, but not the width.

Place example: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/DK9

Could you upload a picture how the roads look in reality and how they are signposted?

I agree that the rendering of living streets is not the most beautiful possible solution, but extending the living street on private ways doesn't seem correct either.

I don't understand the point, there is highway=service, service=driveway for that case, with clearly described Wiki pages:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:service%3Ddriveway

from a German point of view, a living street is a public road

The same in the Netherlands, and I would never tag a private driveway to a property as highway=living_street, instead use the above tagging.

I do not like the concept of living_street=yes as described by that old Wiki page. I think this is a poor tagging scheme. If we follow the instructions on that page, even a highway=motorway could get the additional living_street=yes, which is ridiculous (_"Extend the concept of highway=living_street to any highway=* tag."_: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:living_street%3Dyes)

I have the feeling this page was introduced before landuse=residential came into being, so as to have some way to describe a road that runs through a residential area. The proposal is from 2009 after all.

@polarbearing
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There is unambiguous signposting that cars and peds share the road, so it's highway=living_street.
lstr

from a German point of view, a living street is a public road

Living Street in Germany defines an area (signed only at the beginning), not street itself. So every (non foot/cycle only) road has the same legal restrictions.

I think he meant, independent from the shape, that the living street is a public entity, while the driveway is a private one, to which the Ruled of the Road do not apply. Therefore tagging the private driveway as living_street=yes is pointless.

Timmendorfer Strand is a good example that a whole village can be a living street area. At the entrance there is only one sign.
timmendorfer strand
The service roads that are now white should also be gray. This is only possible if you additionally add the tag living_street=yes. The same traffic rules apply to service roads, which also apply to parking rules.

What makes those streets in Timmendorfer Strand service roads rather than
highway=residential or =living_street?

Are they maintained by the owners of nearby houses / apartments rather than
by the local government?

Are they alleys, or driveways, or something different?

I think of service roads as being private roads, maintained by individuals
or companies, rather than public highways. But this may be an American idea.
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Timmendorfer Strand is a good example that a whole village can be a living
street area. At the entrance there is only one sign.
[image: timmendorfer strand]
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17127509/48658158-2f2a3500-ea3d-11e8-9503-6d0ce68ba434.jpg
The service roads that are now white should also be gray. This is only
possible if you additionally add the tag living_street=yes. The same
traffic rules apply to service roads, which also apply to parking rules.

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On 16. Nov 2018, at 21:44, Holger Jeromin notifications@github.com wrote:

from a German point of view, a living street is a public road

Living Street in Germany defines an area (signed only at the beginning), not street itself. So every (non foot/cycle only) road has the same legal restrictions.

exactly: road, a private driveway isn’t a road. All the roads within that zone are highway=living_street in osm.

I propose to close this issue as rejected, i.e. not rendering living_street=yes

The proposal is marked as _abandonned_ on the wiki page so agree to close this issue

It doesn't seem like the numbers on it are increasing either. Plus, highway=living_street, which is already rendered, is a more "proper" tag. We shouldn't encourage bad/abandoned tagging. So I third the issue being closed.

From wiki edits it seems that living_street=yes is at best disputed by some. Is anybody planning to start discussion about this tag on OSM wiki or tagging mailing list?

Going by the wiki it seems its an add-on to other roads to designate that they are mixed use of whatever+living_street. So, IMO there wouldn't be a practical way to render it anyway. Since rendering something like a liner residential road a completely different way because it is tagged with living_street=yes just doesn't seem doable or worth it. The same idea got shot down for showing if a road is lit or not.

It was discussed on talk-de and unanimously disagreed with.
So far I have not seen a valid example where it would be needed. The only examples were private driveways, to which the road rules about living street don't apply, with the reason given that a unique colour would be nicer.
I'm in favour of the map being correct.

In that case I will close it for now. It may be reopened in case of evidence that this tagging is considered as a good one.

And please do not discuss here whatever this tagging is a good idea or not. Do it on OSM wiki/tagging mailing list and leave here at most a link.

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