[Tagging] Residential roads

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:01:40PM +1000, Stephen Hope wrote:
> First, I've recently done a couple of roads in the country. They're
> either dead end roads or form some sort of web but are not connecting
> roads in the sense that they go anywhere else in particular.  One
> example is about three or four km long, and has about 5 farms and a
> few smaller properties on it. How would you tag that?  It's not what I
> would call a residential area, though obviously a few people do live
> there.

IMHO highway=unclassified

Its not a track as it connectes multiple farms which means its not
mostly for agricultural traffic. Typically the school bus, postman etc
goes through there too.

Its not residential as its not a residential area.

> The other extreme is lanes in places like retirement villages and
> caravan parks.  These are definitely residential areas, but are not
> full blown roads, usually only one lane wide and private roads, not
> publicly owned. Often with little or no curbing, etc.  It feels wrong
> to just be marking them as residential.

Within a caravan park -> highway=service?

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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