[Tagging] highway=residential_link

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:45:29 +0100
Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>  
> 
> No, I can't think of any real examples at the moment, but that doesn't
> make them any less existable. And if they exist, then
> highway=residential_link is more logical than forcing
> highway=residential and adding link=yes or some other flag to
> distinguish them. 
> 
> On 2015-11-10 17:19, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: 
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:54:45 +0100
> > Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > 
> >> Duck test: short link between two primaries is primary_link, so a
> >> short link between two residentials is residential_link. The fact
> >> that it is a very rare scenario does not detract from the fact that
> >> it is existable. Why resort to a different tagging pattern if it
> >> fits in the one we use for other analogous situations?
> > 
> > I encountered many short links between highway=residential, every
> > single one was clear highway=residential.
> > 
> > For example see
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/24789911#map=17/50.06036/19.92942
> > 
> > Can you provide an example of real situation where
> > highway=residential_link makes sense?
>  

For me expecting everybody to start handling residential_link is for
worse than link=yes.