[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

[Fernando Trebien]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 3:09 PM Sergio Manzi <smz at smz.it> wrote:
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> Venice situation is unusual but not unique and in other contexts different tagging schemes have been used, not limited by the footway/pedestrian alternative.
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> As an example see how this road in Mackinac Island (no motor vehicles there...) is tagged: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17874338

Interesting. This is sometimes called "Drive" but driving is not
allowed... In fact, motorised vehicles are forbidden, only walking,
cycling and horseback riding. It looks like cycling is the primary
activity there, so maybe highway=cycleway isn't really that wrong. I'd
guess it was set back to secondary to strictly follow the US tagging
guidelines [1], which make no sense to me in this particular case.

What makes this even more detached from expectations is that some
bicycle routers (OSRM, GraphHopper) tend to avoid highway=secondary
and higher, so a way that is primarily for cycling would end up being
avoided.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging

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Fernando Trebien