[Tagging] Residential roads

[Richard Welty]

  On 9/28/10 4:31 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> 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.
>
i concur. old farm roads get unclassified, mixed (housing and farm)
neighborhoods get unclassified.

but do get the speed limits and set maxspeed, as otherwise any
routing software will likely make wrong assumptions. if there is no
posted speed limit, find the one for the state in which you are
mapping as again, routing software will otherwise be forced to
make assumptions.
>> 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?
with

service=driveway|parking_aisle
access=*

as appropriate.

richard