[Tagging] highway=residential_link

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:36:22 +0100
Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
 
> On 2015-11-11 21:26, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: 
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:50:41 +0100
> > Joachim <noreply at freedom-x.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> Many see _link only as slip roads. But using it for at-grade
> >> junctions like described in the wiki has one advantage: _link is
> >> usually tagged without a name because it connects two named roads
> >> and has none itself. Using no link gives many warning in QA tools.
> >> Using highway=residential plus noname=yes might be a workaround in
> >> the current situation.
> > 
> > False positive in QA tool is not a good reason to force everybody to
> > handle residential_link, service_link etc
> > 
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> The fact that tools don't currently support something is no reason to
> oppose its introduction either. If it were, we would never be able to
> change anything. 

Note that I am not claiming that "tools don't currently support
something" as reason to oppose introduction something.

I was claiming that false positive in a QA tool is not a good reason to
break nearly all existing data consumers using road network data.