[talk-au] Residential Roads

[Ben Johnson]

On 10/12/2011, at 19:39, mick <bareman at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:10:25 +1000
> Peter Watson <peter.bmwk75rt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a fairly narrow view on what a residential road is in Aust. 1. Is in
>> a built up area or suburb, 2. Has 50km/h or less speed limit. 3. Has house
>> blocks on at least one side. I find so many roads in the maps which are out
>> of town, have acre blocks or farms on them and have been tagged by the
>> maxspeed bot as 50km/h because they have been tagged residential. These
>> roads often have speedlimits of 60 or higher. I think these should be
>> tagged unclassified. What do other mappers think.
>> Peter

> I'd prefer highway=rural_road or similar because unclassified seems too much like incompletely entered, then again I think "highway=" is a bad choice but its so deeply embedded now.
> 
> mick

Agree with both of you. And minor streets in industrial or commercial areas... residential or unclassified?

I guess you could say a "residential" way implies certain characteristics - eg 50km/h limit, houses, house numbers, letterboxes, kids running around, a place where people live, etc, but there are plenty of tertiary (and other) ways that have the same "residential" qualities about them.

Likewise, why do we not have a "retail" classification for streets in shopping areas? Crazy, but equally valid as residential.

Ways should simply be classified by their relative importance. LANDUSE should be the indicator of the type of areas through which they pass!

BJ