[OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 33, Issue 25

[Aspen Swartz]

> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 33, Issue 25
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> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Aspen Swartz <aspendel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think my personal conclusion after thinking about this way too much,
>> is that living street should be deprecated, and tagged instead as
>> highway=pedestrian and type=living street. ?It's clearly too specific,
>> to the people familiar with it, to be used outside of Europe.
>>
>
> As it was explained in some previous posts, the main difference
> between pedestrian and living street is the access or not for motor
> vehicules. "Living street" is a legal status created in some european
> countries to have something between the residential areas with a
> reduced speed limit (usually 30kmh instead of the default 50 kmh in
> urban zones) and pedestrian streets not accessible for cars. But the
> rules are not always exactly the same for all countries (e.g. the
> speed limit of a living street). It is free for other countries to use
> it if they have a similar status.
> Have also a look on this wiki page for country-specific access restrictions:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions
>
> Pieren

Ah, that is clearer to me.  Not sure why I didn't get it earlier. I
think the wiki could use some clarification on it. Thank you.

Aspen