While taking a look at my county’s parcel data map, I noticed a few undeveloped public rights of way in my area. I was wondering if there was anything I could add to OSM to indicate the existence of these public strips of land that may or may not be paved in the future. Perhaps adding a line or area with some sort of tags or maybe even uploading data from the parcel website to OSM if possible. I attached a screenshot of one of the strips of land I’m referring to below.
Having cleaned up a fair number of TIGER “roads” that were actually just undeveloped public right of ways, my gut reaction is to say don’t try to map them.
We don’t even usually map land parcels, at least in my area, because unless fenced they are not something that a OSM mapper can verify in the field.
That said, if you were to map land parcels then the undeveloped public right of way locations would become apparent. Just as your image shows.
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Do people drive / walk / bike through it?
If they do, it could be marked as a footway etc, surface=grass / ground.
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Yes, I have friends who have walked through it plenty of times. So that should probably be enough.
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From your screenshot it looks like it is possible to drive on these “roads” with car? So I’d suggest highway=service rather than footway maybe with service=alley.
Have you checked other cities in your area on how other mappers have mapped those ways?