[Tagging] highway=unclassified

[Simone Saviolo]

2011/7/29 John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>

> Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
> > I think the underlying problem is that there's a big gap between
> > tertiary, which should be a road that really is used to go somewhere
> > and
> > residential, which more or less means a road that you wouldn't care
> > about unless you destination is on or very near it.
>
> An additional complication is that many residential neighborhoods, at least
> in suburbia, are laid out in a tree, rather than grid, structure.  So, you
> have roads that are both tertiary (used to reach other, lesser roads) and
> residential (lined with residences).  Some mappers are likely to tag this as
> tertiary, some as residential.  In my case, I live on a street that has
> residences on one side, offices on the other, and is sometimes used as a
> through route connecting two larger, more-heavily-trafficked streets.
>

Sorry, but this doesn't seem much of a problem to me. It's evident that a
way that goes through a city will have houses/offices/buildings on one or
both sides, no matter how large it is. I refuse to consider Viale Monza or
Viale Abruzzi in Milano [1] residential streets just because there are
residences on them. Rather, a residential street is defined not much by the
presence of residences, but by the fact that you expect people to be there
only if they have to reach one of those residences.

Similarly, there could be confusion as to whether such a street in an
industrial area should be tagged as residential. For example, it may only be
used by people who have to reach a certain office/shop/factory/workplace, or
a farmyard, but there are no residences on it. Is it ok to call it a
"residential"?

Ciao,

Simone

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.48634&lon=9.21823&zoom=16&layers=M
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