[talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

Luke Woolley lswoolley at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 14:12:42 BST 2009


When I made that edit, I probably worded it wrongly, as I meant that  
the residential tag was to be used in rural areas, but by that I meant  
local streets in the towns. But I made that edit when I didn't really  
know there was a mailing list or other real means of communication  
with other mappers.

Currently, for local roads, I use residential for all local streets  
which have houses along them. I use unclassified for all other local  
roads, such as ones that run through industrial estates, rural areas  
past paddocks, virtually everything except for residential areas. I  
assume this is sort of in line with what other mappers are tagging.

On 05/08/2009, at 7:46 PM, Liz wrote:

> lakeyboy or others, can you recall the evidence for this change?
>
> From: Jonathan Bennett <openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk>
> Date: 5 August 2009 7:37:53 PM
> To: James Livingston <doctau at mac.com>
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] residential and unclassified in Australia  
> WAS definition of the main highway-tag
>
>
> James Livingston wrote:
>> In addition the "Australian Tagging Guidelines" (which Liz mentioned
>> were written a year before the residential page) explicitly disagree
>> with the residential page.
>
> I've done some investigation on this specific point, and found the
> following:
>
> The edit which added the current definition of residential roads to  
> that
> page was made on 2nd January 2008
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Australian_Tagging_Guidelines&diff=67689&oldid=66241 
> )
> by Lakeyboy in an edit with no summary. I can find no discussion of  
> this
> change on the wiki talk page or Talk-AU beforehand.
>
> I can only assume, based on the available evidence, that this wasn't a
> change that the Australian OSM community arrived at through consensus.
> Rather it was one mapper's idea that he didn't discuss with anyone
> before putting into the wiki. The change was also made after the
> convention for the residential tag had been established elsewhere.
>
> It's up to the AU community what to do about this, but be aware that  
> in
> the European Axis there's a very strong feeling that for a road to be
> tagged residential, there needs to be houses (or other dwellings) on  
> it,
> and for it not to be designed for through traffic.
>
> -- 
> Jonathan (Jonobennett)
>
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