<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 3:18 PM, James Ewen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ve6srv@gmail.com">ve6srv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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GeoBase has one access road on one side of the road labelled as<br>
Grandin Road, but on the other side of the road, it has no name. All<br>
three roads are tagged as residential. I'm thinking that a routing<br>
algorithm would not know any better, and might send someone down the<br>
side road, rather than down the main throughway.<br>
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What is the common ground on tagging these things? I would guess that<br>
all these roads would get named Grandin Road, as the houses are all<br>
addressed as Grandin Road. I was thinking that the 4 lane section get<br>
bumped to tertiary as it is a collector road, and as such would be<br>
more important than just a plain residential road. The side roads<br>
could then stay as residential, or perhaps they would be better tagged<br>
at a lower level?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Tertiary for the main part of the roads seems reasonable to me. <br><br>Proper terminology for the side roads appears to be "frontage road" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontage_road">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontage_road</a>). It should be tagged according to whatever the function of the frontage road is, which in this case is residential.<br>
<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice</a><br><br>-Katie<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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James<br>
VE6SRV<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Katie Filbert<br>@filbertkm<br>