<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>thanks for all the feedback.<br><br></div>One thing i forgot to mention is that the classification (1) i have mentioned earlier is purely for residential traffic. I don't see anyone using those roads other than people live on that road or who want to visit them. so it matches the <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dresidential">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dresidential</a>. The only difference compared to an urban area is that houses are bit spread out - in some rare cases you may not see a house in 100-150 meters. Additionally these roads shouldn't be used for routing as much as possible even though it looks like a short cut between bigger roads. So the tag residential looks ok to me.<br><br></div>For (2) i agree that marking lanes=2 is wrong. But <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lanes">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lanes</a> mention that using lanes=1.5 is not the preferred one either. So I will mark it as lanes=1. I will use additional width tag can be populated to mention that it is narrow.<br><div><br> <br></div><div>And as a side note there are a lot of rural roads (that are well maintained by govt -probably by the local panchayath or municipal authorities) which has width of only 2m around my place. So as usual the standards say one thing and ground reality is different.<br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks,<br></div><div>arun<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Arun Ganesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arun.planemad@gmail.com" target="_blank">arun.planemad@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just went through the IRC Roads and Bridges handbook [1] and updated some sections of the wiki regarding village roads:<div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_Roads_in_India#Major_Roads" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_Roads_in_India#Major_Roads</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:13px"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">1) Asphalted roads that are wide enough just for a single car/small truck. There are no shoulders to these kind of roads and the road boundaries are usually hard walls built around farm land. so if some other car comes in the opposite direction, you certainly have to go back 100-200meters to let it pass. </blockquote><div> </div></span><div>highway=unclassified</div><div>lanes=1</div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2) Asphalted roads that are wide enough for a car/small truck, but with shoulders. so it is possible to let the car in opposite side to pass by moving over to road shoulder.<br></blockquote><div> </div></span><div>highway=unclassified</div><div>lanes=1.5</div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13px">3) Asphalted roads that are wide enough for 2 cars or a bus. typically connects 2 main villeges. </span></blockquote></span></div></div><div><div style="font-size:13px">highway=tertiary</div><div style="font-size:13px">lanes=1.5 or 2</div></div><div><br></div><div>According to the IRC standards, it seems like most rural roads would be unclassified or tertiary, with singe lane (3-3.5m) or intermediate lane (3.5-5.5m)</div><div><br></div><div>Residential roads and living streets should be used for roads serving purely local residential traffic and not for traffic between villages.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://saiindia.gov.in/english/home/Public_Folder/Professional_Practices_Group/State_Local_Manual/PUDUCHERRY_MANUAL/Wad%20Manual/Roads%20&%20Bridges.pdf" target="_blank">http://saiindia.gov.in/english/home/Public_Folder/Professional_Practices_Group/State_Local_Manual/PUDUCHERRY_MANUAL/Wad%20Manual/Roads%20&%20Bridges.pdf</a></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><br></div>-- <br><div>
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