[talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

[John Henderson]

Roy Wallace wrote:

> My 2 cents: anything that is less important than tertiary is:
> 
> 1) if it is a named/public road:
>  * residential if lined primarily with people's homes and used
> primarily by people accessing those homes
>  * unclassified otherwise
> 2) service otherwise (unnamed or restricted access)
> 
> When I say "named/public" I mean it has a normal street sign and is
> accessible to the general public. I'm not suggesting this is a nice
> tagging scheme, but it's what I use, and at least it isn't "very hard
> to apply" here, IMHO.

That's is the rule-of-thumb which I use too.

My exception to date is when I surveyed a named road where part of it is 
private, wide and in good nick.  Then I thought highway=unclassified and 
access=private was most appropriate:

http://www.osm.org/?lat=-35.14265&lon=148.92249&zoom=15

That has stopped my Garmin from suggesting it as a route, even though 
it's a lot shorter than the 100% public road alternatives.

John