[OSM-newbies] road classification for industrial park

[Cartinus]

On Sunday 29 March 2009 03:37:15 Bill Ricker wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > When a road is not important (so it can't be classified as tertiary and
> > above) and has no special "purpose" (so it's not residential or service)
> > you're best of to tag it as highway=unclassified. The Mapnik layer on
> > openstreetmap.org renders unclassified and residential the same.
> >
> > On Saturday 28 March 2009 16:00:00 doug brown wrote:
> >> I am mapping an industrial park and cannot determine what tags to put on
> >> the roads in this area.  highway=residential is not appropriate as it is
> >> misleading, though it would be desirable that the renderer produce a
> >> similar symbol on the map.  I have a similar issue with streets that are
> >> primarily commercial.
> >>
> >> Some guidance please.
>
> An Industrial Park might well have Tertiary roads as its arteries if
> so classified by government. Minor roads could be unclassified or
> Service road. If unnamed, service road.
>
> We have a lot of Industrial roads mis-tagged Residential in
> Massachusetts because that was the default for minor roads in the
> MassGIS import. (Yes, Mass isn't Tiger.) Many of them are imported
> nameless so they show up on QA Red, and the easy fix is to make them
> Service Roads.

If it really is a service road, then by all means tag it as such. But the fact 
that it doesn't have a name doesn't make a road a service road to me. This 
sounds like a bad case of tagging for the "renderer".

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus