[HOT] residential roads within built-up areas

[Bjoern Hassler]

Hi Blake,

Thanks!

Generally roads that are part of the larger road network
> infrastructure and serve as connections between settlements but also
> pass through those settlements are not down tagged to "residential"
> roads when they pass through settlements.
>
...

>
> Residential roads are roads whose primary function is access to
> housing. If the primary function of the road is to connect settlements
> and it just happens to pass through some residential area I generally
> leave it as the larger road classification.


In cities, it's just a little hard to define boundaries of settlement.

I agree with your definition. Would you agree that it implies that
'residential' is used relatively sparsely, i.e. where a road leads to a
group of houses, or where a road is located inside a "gated" are, like an
institution, university, school or residential community?


> If you are local to Lusaka, you should connect up with Trudy Hope who
> is also in Lusaka.
>

Yes :) We are in touch and met recently.

Bjoern


> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Bjoern Hassler <bjohas+mw at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > The roads near here (to the west) are all "residential":
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/94058793
> >
> > What's the view on residential roads within built-up areas? My view
> would be
> > that the roads are all "through-roads" and therefore should be
> > "Unclassified" rather than residential.
> >
> > What do you think?
> > Bjoern
> >
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