[OSM-newbies] Advice: Do I use "unclassified" downtown streets?

[Charlotte Wolter]

Randy and everyone.

         Thanks.
         Rethinking it, I read some more in the wiki and discovered 
that I could use "abutters" to add detail about what was along the 
road, independent of the physical road itself. So, now I am thinking 
that the road itself (size, number of lanes, access characteristics) 
determines the kind of highway it is while "abutters" can be used to 
describe its setting (which also adds information about how it is used).
         Any comments?

--C


At 03:54 PM 10/20/2009, you wrote:
>Charlotte Wolter wrote:
>
> >        I've been cleaning up the Tiger-based sections of the map for
> > Santa Monica, California.   In the downtown area, about 40 square
> > blocks, the streets are busy and not residential. But they also are
> > not through ways, providing transportation between areas. They were
> > marked "residential," but that's clearly not accurate at this time. I
> > had changed the tags to "tertiary," because they are two-way and have
> > white dashed lines and, sometimes, four lanes. They are often jammed
> > with traffic. After reading the wiki, I was wondering if this where
> > we use "unclassified"?         Apologies if this is an old question
> > and thanks in advance for our help.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Charlotte
>
>Charlotte,
>
>I ran into the same problem, and asked basically the same question. I
>never did get a satisfactory answer. One response doubted my situation
>actually existed! From all the reading of the wiki and talk lists that
>I have done, it seems that function overrides physical characteristics
>when classifying highways. So, I decided that if it was a street that
>doesn't go anywhere except through a commercial area for several
>blocks, the best thing to do was to use highway=unclassified, and to
>add a lanes=n qualifier if it has more than two lanes.
>
>Of course, others may disagree.
>
>--
>Randy
>
>
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