[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential

[Volker Schmidt]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 20:09, Fernando Trebien <fernando.trebien at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think Lone Pine [2] would be interesting to discuss because it
> doesn't have any major routes linking larger places passing through
> it.  The highways leading to it are currently highway=residential and
> should probably be highway=unclassified.
>
>
> >  [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/150932853
>
>
Country roads imported with the old TIGER imports are uniformly tagged
"residential".
And in many cases this is correct in the sense that they are typically used
to access property along them or in the neighbourhood. In the specific
case, if you consult satellite imagery you will see many dwellings along
them.
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