[OSM-newbies] residential street vs. unclassified

[John F. Eldredge]

I think I am going to go ahead and tag my street as "unclassified".  It is about 50/50 residential and offices, with the residences mostly on the west side of the street and the offices mostly on the east side, except for one quarter-mile section that has offices on the west and an Interstate highway (limited-access motorway) on the east.  It is along the edge of a large, all-residential neighborhood, and has relatively high traffic volumes, both because of the mixed residential/office usage and also because it forms the only direct link between two arterial roads.  As such, it is possible for bicycle use, but not ideal.

-------Original Email-------
Subject :Re: [OSM-newbies] residential street vs. unclassified
From  :mailto:richard at weait.com
Date  :Sat Mar 27 09:34:14 America/Chicago 2010


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> No, but neither do most of the purely-residential streets in this part of
>> the city.
>>
>>
>
> You talk about a grey zone where both, residential or unclassified, are
> correct. Just think that some routers for bikes might give a preference to
> residential streets as they are supposed to have a low car traffic :
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle#On-Road_Cycling_.28Cycle_Friendly_Streets.29


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