[OSM-dev] AND conv: residential versus unclassified

[Dermot McNally]

On 29/08/2007, ante at ffii.org <ante at ffii.org> wrote:

> The Residentials believe local roads should be tagged as residential,
> whether people live there, or whether there are shops or industry as well.

Does this opinion only apply within urban areas? If there are folk
tagging rural non-inhabited roads as residential, then to me that's
very wrong. Likewise, I've always considered the residential tag to
imply two things about a road:

* It's characterised largely by the fact that people live on it (a row
of shops completely surrounded by houses would still qualify in my
book)

* It shouldn't be considered a valid through-route

Unclassified doesn't imply either of those things, though it may imply
that a classified road would be a _better_ through route.

Dermot