[Tagging] Residential roads
Steve Bennett
stevagewp at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 04:45:12 BST 2010
Hi Stephen,
You've highlighted two grey areas I often struggle with.
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Stephen Hope <slhope at gmail.com> 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.
Probably the simplest distinction is that various programs treat
"unclassified" as a fast country road (eg, 100+kph), and "residential"
as a quiet residential street (eg, 50-60kph). Take your pick.
> 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.
There's a continuum with these. Sometimes what looks like a retirement
village or something is just a housing development, just like any
other street but all built in the same style, by one construction
company.
If the houses have public street addresses (eg, 46 Jones St), I make
them highway=residential. If they're addressed within the context of
the development/retirement village/caravan park (eg, lot 15, Jones
Park), I'd use something like highway=service.
You do have to be careful not to see a narrow street and immediately
leap at highway=service.
Steve
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