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The driveway was put in by my father - so no it is not a roadway.

I think there was wishful thinking since many of the OSM maintainers are mountain bikers and the Santa Cruz mountains has some desirable mountain biking paths. The back part of our property is on The Soquel Demonstration Forest which has an awesome mountain biking path.

They were pretty good about fixing the issue when I pointed it out.

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You know the best thing about OSM? It's in the top left corner, right next to the OpenStreetMap logo. The "Edit" button.

You could literally fix this issue yourself in under 5 minutes, and that includes the time to set up an account.

Not necessarily. If the address lookup is making a wrong inference from correct data, then there wouldn't be anything to fix in the data.

That case sounds like a bug/algorithm issue with address lookup software. If the OSM data is correct, then it would make the same mistake with any other correct map data source, right?

But in this case, it sounds like the issue is that a private driveway is mis-labelled as a public route. This sort of thing is trivial to fix in OSM.

They state in the thread that the driveway was quickly corrected. I thought it was reasonable to assume we were talking about the addressing issue.

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