[talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

[John Smith]

2009/12/28 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Ross Scanlon wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:19:11 +1100
>>
>> Richard Colless <firefly at ar.com.au> wrote:
>> > When tagging roads, what do you use for roads in a purely industrial
>> > area? There isn't anything for "industrial", so I've been changing
>> > "unknown" and "No preset" to "residential" when adding in street names.
>>
>> highway=unclassified
>
> good deal of discussion about this
> so another point of view is "residential" for those industrial area streets
> and unclassified is a road classification below tertiary in rural areas
>
> (there is no conclusion about this, whether this statement starts a long
> argument or not)

While it might be unconcluded by mappers, the thing to remember is a
lot of routing software is made by europeans and they classify
unclassified above residential, so you might get some funny routing
using residential in industrial areas.