[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

djakk djakk djakk.djakk at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 14:48:12 UTC 2019


... furthermore, highway_level can be used to classify footway or cycleway
:)

For example, in a park, some footway are “unclassified” (or
highway_level=5) and some are “primary” (or highway_level=1). Very useful
to render long-range trail.

djakk


Le dim. 24 févr. 2019 à 15:44, djakk djakk <djakk.djakk at gmail.com> a écrit :

> ... for the unclassified / residential issue : highway_level=5 or 6 and
> highway_physics=countryside or town
>
>
> djakk
>
>
> Le dim. 24 févr. 2019 à 15:25, djakk djakk <djakk.djakk at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hello !
>>
>> I think we should decorrelate the attributes of a road : its
>> administrative class, its importance in the road network (at least 5
>> levels), its physical characteristics (motorway-like, two large lanes,
>> link=yes ...), possibly its traffic characteristics.
>>
>> So we can tag a secondary motorway or a primary road through a
>> residential area or an official motorway with pedestrians actually walking
>> on it.
>>
>> So that we’ll unify osm road classification through the world (remember
>> the highway=trunk issue ;-))
>>
>>
>> Julien “djakk”
>>
>>
>>
>> Le sam. 23 févr. 2019 à 16:49, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>>
>>> On 23/02/2019 15:35, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>> > ... But we don't have
>>> >    primary_residential
>>> >    primary_not_residential
>>> >
>>> > even though in the US that makes just as much sense as
>>> > level5_residential and level5_not_residential.
>>>
>>> OSM sort-of did have that a very long time ago.  The "abutters" key was
>>> used for something like that (see
>>> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/abutters ) but even when I
>>> started (in 2008) I don't remember being told to use that key.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
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