[talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 06:24:32 GMT 2009


2009/12/29 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> That depends what you mean by "service road". Following the scheme
> given by 1) and 2) above: If it's named/public, highway=residential.
> Otherwise, highway=service.

I generally tag lane ways as highway=service, as that's what they
generally are, service access to the rear of residential properties.

>> Also, what about weird dinky little strets you sometimes get in suburbia that are paved with red bricks or something equally creative, but are also the primary means of access to houses? Residential or service?
>
> Again, if named/public, highway=residential, otherwise
> highway=service. That's what I do, anyway. If not fantastic, at least
> it's simple. But this is now off-topic.

like the other John said, highway=living_street, and also they
generally have low speed limits (10-30km/hr) and a lot of foot
traffic, but pedestrians don't have to have right of way...

eg Mary Street in Gympie, speed limit is 20km/hr from memory, lots of
speed humps that double as pedestrian crossings:

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=gympie&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Gympie+Queensland&ll=-26.189505,152.660662&spn=0,359.981976&z=17&layer=c&cbll=-26.189467,152.660565&panoid=zzm50GIV5YChxCFyE8G55g&cbp=12,113.26,,0,5.05




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