[talk-au] Updating the Australian Tagging Guidelines

[BlueMM]

Liz <edodd at ...> writes:

> 
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
> > The current use of highway=residential/highway=unclassified is almost on
> > par with what the germans use it for, it is the lowest road used for the
> > interconnecting grid, residential is usually the lowest in towns/cities and
> > track is the lowest everywhere.
> >
> > Can someone suggest changes to the tagging guidelines to make this clear?
> >
> > I'm not saying you shouldn't use residential if you think it's residential,
> > but if the road is wider and more used than residential, but less than
> > tertiary this seems to be what happens else where and if we leave things as
> > is on the wiki people are tagging rural roads as residential.
> 
> What it says on the wiki under 'stralya for rural is unclassified for "other 
> named rural roads"
> and for urban
> "other streets, not generally through roads"
> 
> seems clear enough to me
> 
> but it may not be clear enough to others 

I always understood that:
use residential along normal urban/town residential roads; truck/primary etc.
for appropriate urban/ A+B+C rural roads; for all other rural roads and urban
roads in industrial estates etc. use unclassified.

The Melways uses local roads as the lowest form of paved roads, but I think OSM
splits this with residential local roads as highway=residential & all other
local roads are highway=unclassified.

BlueMM