[OSM-newbies] Secondary vs tertiary roads

[Andy Allan]

On 8/8/07, Gregory Williams <gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk> wrote:
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> According to the wiki the UK settings for "highway" are as follows,
> trunk is the primary trunk route, primary is the remaining A roads,
> secondary is B roads, but what about a non-B road that more than just a
> residential road, as it goes somewhere, but has houses on it - should it
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> be residential, or unclassified, or tertiary (not mentioned in the
> wiki)...?
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> When you need to mark the fact that that a primary / secondary /
> tertiary road leads through a residential area you can add the attribute
> abutters=residential. I only use highway=residential on roads which
> would otherwise be highway=unclassified if they didn't have housing
> there.

It's best to use landuse=residential around the residential area, in
preference to abutters=residential.

Cheers,
Andy