<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Exactly. From a routing point of view, if you encounter a residential road, little can be deducted with certaointy</div><div dir="ltr">from that tag.</div><div>E.g. live very near a residential road, where along the length are lots of houses, but these are shielded by ridges, bushes and separate cycleways so traffic is not impaired by that, except where there are crossings and traffic signs.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3515915108427631725gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Vr gr Peter Elderson</div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op wo 20 feb. 2019 om 13:45 schreef Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com" target="_blank">pla16021@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 12:25, Peter Elderson <<a href="mailto:pelderson@gmail.com" target="_blank">pelderson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Residential just means it has housing along the road.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That doesn't necessarily work the other way around. My part of the world has a lot of</div><div>ribbon villages: a small number of houses (typically around 10)clustered along a</div><div> road connecting two towns/villages. That road might be a primary, secondary or tertiary</div><div> route, a minor road or an unclassified road. I wouldn't classify it as residential even when,</div><div>as in some cases, speed limits are lowered where it passes through the village.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">In the same way, there is a secondary route passing through the centre of my town. If it</div><div class="gmail_quote">weren't also a secondary route it would be classed as residential, but it's a secondary route and</div><div class="gmail_quote">referred to as such on maps.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">OTOH, there are many residential roads in my town which aren't dead ends. Which means you</div><div class="gmail_quote">can use them to avoid the secondary route passing through town. That doesn't make them an</div><div class="gmail_quote">unclassified route, though.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>
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